Book/Printed Material Image 1 of Proclamation

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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 ...

Names

  • United States. Continental Congress.
  • Jay, John, 1745-1829.
  • Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
  • Hall & Sellers, printer.
  • Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Printed by Hall and Sellers, [1779]

Headings

  • -  Fast-day sermons
  • -  Proclamations--United States
  • -  United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Genre

  • Broadsides--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1779
  • Fast day proclamations--United States--1779
  • Broadsheet format (Printing)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--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.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  Formerly LCCN tes54-321. qr01 09-06-90

Medium

  • 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 42 x 33 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Cont Cong no. 57

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 90898103

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

United States Continental Congress, John Jay, Charles Thomson, Printer Hall & Sellers, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. 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. [Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1779] Online Text. https://www.loc.gov/item/90898103/.

APA citation style:

United States Continental Congress, Jay, J., Thomson, C., Hall & Sellers, P. & Continental Congress Broadside Collection. (1779) 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. [Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90898103/.

MLA citation style:

United States Continental Congress, et al. 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. [Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1779] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/90898103/>.