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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Formerly LCCN tes54-321. qr01 09-06-90

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01/01/1779

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Contributors

United States. Continental Congress.

Jay, John, 1745-1829.

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.

Hall & Sellers, printer.

Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

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Library of Congress

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