By the Honorable William Pitkin, Esquire ; governor of His Majesty's English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America. A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer : ... Wednesday, the nineteenth day of April next ... Given under my hand in Hartford, the ninth day of March ... 1769.

By the Honorable William Pitkin, Esquire ; governor of His Majesty's English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America. A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer : ... Wednesday, the nineteenth day of April next ... Given under my hand in Hartford, the ninth day of March ... 1769.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:Connecticut. Governor (1766-1769 : Pitkin)
Uniform title:Proclamation (1769 March 9)
Imprint:Hartford : Printed by Green and Watson, near the Great Bridge, [1769]
Description:1 online resource (1 broadside)
Language:English
Subject:
Repentance.
Special days -- Connecticut.
Repentance.
Special days.
Connecticut.
Broadsides.
Fast day proclamations -- 1769 Apr. 19.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11997069
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Varying Form of Title:Proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer ... Wednesday, the nineteenth day of April next ...
Notes:Signed: Wm. Pitkin. God save the King.
At head of title: royal arms.
Evans 11219
Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed November 19, 2019).
Summary:March 9, 1769 broadside issued by Governor William Pitkin of Connecticut, proclaiming April 19th as a day of public fasting and prayer, directed at the hope that the king and council would look favorably on the petitions of the colony to resolve the discord.

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