This is the text of a Proclamation for a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer issued by Oliver Wolcott, Governor of the State of Connecticut. This proclamation was issued on March 17, 1797, declaring April 14, 1797 as a day of fasting for the state. BY HIS EXCELLENCY Oliver Wolcott, Esq. GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER [...]
Increase Sumner (1746-1799) was the governor of Massachusetts from 1797-1799. He had previously been a member of the House of Representatives, a Senator, and a justice in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. This proclamation was issued by Increase Sumner on March 1, 1798, declaring April 5, 1798 the day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer for the [...]
John Adams (1735-1826) Adams was an attorney, diplomat, and statesman; he graduated from Harvard (1755); leader in the opposition to the Stamp Act (1765); delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-77) where he signed the Declaration of Independence (1776); appointed Chief Justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts (1775); delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention (1779-80) and [...]
This is a proclamation by President John Adams for a day of “solemn humiliating, fasting, and prayer" set for April 25, 1799. The proclamation below is as it appears in the Massachusetts Mercury on March 19, 1799. To see a sermon preached on the fast day, click here. GENERAL FAST. By the President Of the [...]
This is the text of a Proclamation for a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer issued by John Taylor Gilman (Member of the Continental Congress), while he was serving as Governor of New Hampshire. The proclamation was issued on March 19, 1804, declaring April 19, 1804 as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. STATE [...]
Jonathan Trumbull (1740-1809); Trumbull was a soldier and statesman from Connecticut. He served as paymaster/comptroller of the treasury for the American army (1775-80); aide-de-camp to General George Washington (1780-83); U.S. Congressman (1789-95) Speaker of the House (1791-95); U.S. Senator (1795); Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut (1796-98); and Governor of Connecticut (1798-1809). His father, also named Jonathan (1710-1785), [...]
This is the text of Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore’s April 5, 1810 proclamation for a day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer for that state; as printed in the Columbian Centinel on March 7, 1810. To see a sermon preached on this Massachusetts Fast Day, click here. COMMONWEALTH of MASSACHUSETTS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY CHRISTOPHER GORE, Governor [...]
This is the text of President James Madison’s January 12, 1815 Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer Proclamation; as printed in The Yankee on November 25, 1814. To see a sermon preached on the fast day of January 12, 1815, click here. A PROCLAMATION.BY THE PRESIDENT The two Houses of the National Legislature having, by a joint [...]
By His Excellency James Buchanan, President of the United States of America. A Proclamation for a Day of Humiliation, Fasting, & Prayer. To the People of the United States. A Recommendation. Numerous appeals have been made to me by pious and patriotic associations and citizens, in view of the present distracted [...]