State of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. ... Thursday the twelfth day of December next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, this sixteenth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six. ..
Signed by James Bowdoin and sixteen other members of the Massachusetts Council. "By their honor's command, John Avery, Jun. dep. sec'y." - Imprint supplied by Evans.
Printed area measures 38.6 x 21.9 cm.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.