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By his Excellency Arthur Fenner, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. A proclamation

Description

Notes:
Proclaims Thursday Nov. 25, 1802 as a day of public thanksgiving, prayer and praise
Printed area measures: 32.1 x 25.6 cm.
At end of text: Given under my hand and the Seal of the said State, at Providence, this first day of November ... one thousand eight hundred and two ... Arthur Fenner. By his Excellency's command, Samuel Eddy, Secretary
At left agove printed signatures initials L.S. surrounded by eight asterisks
Hay Broadsides Rider copy: Lower edge mutilated without loss of text; vermiculated; fold traces; ms. notation on verso, "Fenner papers"

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No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Rhode Island, and Fenner, Arthur, "By his Excellency Arthur Fenner, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. A proclamation" (1802). Rider Broadsides. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:405573/

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Collection:

  • Rider Broadsides

    The Sidney S. Rider Collection, the largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island, was purchased from Sidney Rider and presented to the library by Marsden Perry in 1903. Rider was a leading Providence bookseller, publisher …
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