Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2
Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2
Fitch, Thomas | A proclamation issued to commemorate the defeat of the French in Canada
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Fitch, Thomas
By the Honourable Thomas Fitch Esq; Governor ... of Connecticut ... A Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving ... Thursday the sixth day of March next ... Given under my hand at Fairfield, the twentieth day of February ... 1760. New Haven: by James Parker & Company, 21 February 1760
Broadside (368 x 305 mm).Woodcut vignette of royal British arms at head, woodcut initial; loss to upper right corner, a few nicks to right margin. Mounted on mat board, glazed and framed.
Issued to commemorate the defeat of the French army in Canada and the taking of Quebec.
REFERENCE:
Evans 8568; ESTC W34681 (locating only 2 copies)