By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America A PROCLAMATION
to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER,
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; [….]
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
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Date: 2014-11-29 05:02 am (UTC)By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America
A PROCLAMATION
to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER,
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; [….]
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
(signed) G. Washington
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