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[ADAMS, JOHN, 1735-1826, President.] Printed broadside, signed in type by Adams as President and Timothy Pickering as Secretary of State: By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation. As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God...[calling for a day of humiliation and prayer in Thanksgiving], [Philadelphia, 23 March 1798]. 1 page, folio, 335 x 395mm. (13 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.), at the top a woodcut seal of the United States, Not traced in Evans, American Bibliography, Shipton and Mooney or Bristol, and apparently unrecorded.
A rare broadside in which President Adams calls for a prayer and thanksgiving (during the crisis of the Quasi-War with France) for God's having "protected these United States in the independant enjoyment of their Religious and Civil Freedom..." VERSO WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK OF TIMOTHY PICKERING, SECRETARY OF STATE, addressed in Pickering's hand to "The Reverend Da[vi]d Trumbull North Haven." RARE.
A rare broadside in which President Adams calls for a prayer and thanksgiving (during the crisis of the Quasi-War with France) for God's having "protected these United States in the independant enjoyment of their Religious and Civil Freedom..." VERSO WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK OF TIMOTHY PICKERING, SECRETARY OF STATE, addressed in Pickering's hand to "The Reverend Da[vi]d Trumbull North Haven." RARE.