A proclamation for a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer : It being our incumbent duty to acknowledge God ... Thursday the first day of August next ... Given at the Council-chamber at Watertown, this fourth day of July ... 1776. ...
- Corporate Author
- Massachusetts. Council
- Published
- [Watertown, Mass.] : [Printed by Benjamin Edes], [1776]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (1 sheet)
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- Series
- Summary
- July 4, 1776 Proclamation setting August 1st as a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting for God's support of the United American Colonies.
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- Note
- Signed by James Bowdoin and eighteen other members of the Massachusetts Council. "By their honor's command, John Avery, Jun. dep. sec'y."
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Printed area measures 33.9 x 21.8 cm. - Reviewed/Cited In
- Evans 14842
Evans 14843
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1993
Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 944
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