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By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut. A proclamation. Revering the wise and pious example of our venerable forefathers, in their institution of appropriate days to be set apart for solemn, social and religious duties: : I have thought proper to appoint, and do hereby appoint, Friday, the thirtieth day of March next, to be observed throughout this state, as a day of public fasting, humiliation, and prayer