By the Honorable Nicholas Cooke, Esq; … A proclamation. : Whereas the Honorable the Continental Congress, now sitting in the city of Philadelphia, have recommended that Thursday, the twentieth day of July next, be observed as a day of public fasting and prayer … Given under my hand, and the seal of the said colony, at Providence, this twenty-second day of June … one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five …

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