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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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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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.

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Evans 14842
Evans 14843
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1993
Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 944

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