By the Honorable Stephen Hopkins, Esq: Governor, Captain General, and Commander in Chief, in and over the English Colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America: A proclamation:… I issue this proclamation, hereby ordering that Thursday, the twenty-second day of November current, be observed and kept by all the inhabitants of this colony, as a day of public thanksgiving … Given under my hand, at the Council Chamber, at South-Kingstown, the second day of November … Annoq; dom. 1759…God Save the King.

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