Proclamation
Subtitle: 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 ...
Contributors: Jay, John, 1745-1829.; Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.; Hall & Sellers,; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Hall and Sellers
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Fast-day sermons.; Proclamations -- United States.
Notes: Evans 16552
Journals of the Continental Congress, 250
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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.
LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation for Continental Fast 1779.