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Title:
  • 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 ...
Call No:
  • G1157
  • Broadsides 1775 No.22
Source of Acquisition:
  • Nevin;
  • 17 Jun 1970.
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • Providence: :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Printed by John Carter.,
Imprint Date:
  • [1775]
Physical Description:
  • 1 sheet ([1] p.) ;
  • 39 x 30 cm.
Provenance:
  • Nevin;
Bibliographic References:
  • Alden, J.E. Rhode Island,
  • Bristol Shipton & Mooney Reilly, E., Dict. of Col. Am. Printers' Ornaments
  • 613A
  • B4107 42929 489,531,897
Notes:
  • Signed: Nicholas Cooke. By His Honor's command, Henry Ward, sec'ry.
  • Royal arms at head of title. Not on Readex. No copy located at time of Alden publication in 1949. Rhode Island Historical Society holds only known original imprint. Verso contains manuscipt notations for accounts paids 1777 to 1779. Many to James Congdon and Pardon Tillinghast for taxes due.
  • Preservation and electronic cataloging for this broadside was made possible by a generous grant from the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
Location:
  • RHI9
  • MARC Values:

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