By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor of the English colony of Connecticut ... A proclamation : ... Thursday, the sixteenth day of November next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving ... Given under my hand in the Council chamber in New-Haven, the fourteenth day of October ... 1775.

By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor of the English colony of Connecticut ... A proclamation : ... Thursday, the sixteenth day of November next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving ... Given under my hand in the Council chamber in New-Haven, the fourteenth day of October ... 1775.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull)
Uniform title:Proclamation (1775 November 16)
Imprint:[New Haven?] : [Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green?], [1775]
Description:1 online resource (1 broadside) : coat of arms
Language:English
Subject:
Gratitude -- Connecticut.
Special days -- Connecticut.
Gratitude.
Special days.
Connecticut.
Broadsides.
Thanksgiving day proclamations -- 1775 Nov. 16.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11997082
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Varying Form of Title:Proclamation ... Thursday, the sixteenth day of November next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving ...
Notes:Signed: Jonth. Trumbull.
Ascribed, by Evans, to the press of Timothy Green of New London; but more likely printed at New Haven by Thomas and Samuel Green. Not in Johnson, H.A. New London.
Printed area measures 40.4 x 22.5 cm.
Evans 13881
Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed November 21, 2019).
Summary:October 14, 1775 broadside issued by Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, proclaiming November 16th as a day of thanksgiving, despite the actions of the British government against the colonies, and sickness in some of the troops.
Other form:Print version: Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull). By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor ... of Connecticut ... A proclamation. [New Haven? : Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green?, 1775]

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