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Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
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Item Title
Proclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer to Almighty God ...
United States. Continental Congress.
Created/Published
Philadelphia : Printed by Hall and Sellers, [1779]
Notes
Signed: Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ... John Jay, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary.
Evans 16552
Journals of the Continental Congress, 250
LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation for Continental Fast 1779.
Subjects
Fast-day sermons.
Proclamations--United States.
Broadsides--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1779.
Fast day proclamations--United States--1779.
United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Broadsheet format (Printing)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1779.
Related Names
Jay, John, 1745-1829.
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Hall & Sellers, printer.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Medium
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 42 x 33 cm.
Call Number
Cont Cong no. 57
Digital ID
bdsdcc 05701 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.05701