By His Excellency William A. Buckingham, governor of the state of Connecticut, a proclamation. : ... I hereby recommend to the citizens of this commonwealth, the observance of Friday, the thirteenth day of March next, as a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer ... given under my hand and the seal of the state, at the city of Hartford, this the twenty-eighth day of February ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six | Collections | The Huntington