By the Honorable Stephen Hopkins, Esq; governor ... of Rhode-Island ... A proclamation [microform] : ... I issue this proclamation, hereby ordering that Thursday, the twenty-second day of November current, be observed and kept by all the inhabitants of this colony, as a day of public thanksgiving ... Given under my hand, at the Council chamber, at South-Kingstown, the second day of November ... Annoq; dom. 1759

Corporate Author: Rhode Island. Governor (1755-1757 : Hopkins)
Published: [Newport, R.I.] : [Printed by James Franklin], [1759]
Physical Description: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 35 x 29 cm
Additional Creators: Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785

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Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41073

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Imprint supplied by Alden.
Signed: Step. Hopkins.
The earliest recorded Thanksgiving proclamation of the colony.
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Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41073).

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Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 213
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B2067
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800 41073

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