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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761
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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 399


His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter received by him from the Board of Trade.

Whitehall November 13th 1759.
Sir
It having pleased Almighty God to give Signal Success to
his Majesty's Arms both by Sea and Land particularly by the
Defeat of the French Army in Canada & the taking of
Quebeck; & his Majesty having thought fit in Acknowledge-
ment of so great Blessings to appoint a day of publick
Thanksgiving for the same throughout Great Britain, We
herewith inclose you his Majesty's Royal Proclamation for
that Purpose; and it being his Majesty's Pleasure that the
like Publick Thanksgiving should be solemnized in all his
Majestys Colonies in America which are so particularly in-
terested in these happy Events We do hereby Signify to you
his Majesty's Commands that you do as soon as possible
after the Receipt hereof appoint a proper Day for that
Purpose to be observed throughout the Province under your
Government with such Solemnities as are suitable to so
great an Occasion. We are
Sir
Your most obedient humble Servants
W G Hamilton, Soame Jenyns. Dunk Halifax
Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor of Maryland.

Which being read It is the humble Advice of this Board
to his Excellency that he be pleased to Order Monday the
17th Day of March next as a Day of Publick Thanksgiving
to be observed throughout this Province and Proclamation
being prepared issued accordingly.

Maryland sst By his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Gov-
ernor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province
of Maryland

A Proclamation

Whereas his Majesty our gracious Sovereign most De-
voutly & thankfully Acknowledging the great goodness &
Mercy of Almighty God who hath afforded him his Pro-
tection and Assistance in the just War in which for the
common safety of his Realms and for the disappointing the
boundless Ambition of France his Majesty is at this time
engaged was pleased by his Royal Proclamation to command
that a general Thanksgiving to Almighty God for such his
Mercies should be Observed in Great Britain on the twenty
ninth Day of November last & hath moreover signified his

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.


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