![[MASSACHUSETTS BAY.] BARNARD, Francis. Broadside folio (16 ¼ x 13 ¼in.), 3 November 1768. A Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving. Boston: Richard Draper, 1768. Woodcut of Royal Arms at top, woodcut initial capital., uneven borders, small hole in upper right not affecting text. Docketed on verso "The Rev. Mr. Smith, Weymouth."](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_12436_0171_000(massachusetts_bay_barnard_francis_broadside_folio_3_november_1768_a_pr054007).jpg?w=1)
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[MASSACHUSETTS BAY.] BARNARD, Francis. Broadside folio (16 ¼ x 13 ¼in.), 3 November 1768. A Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving. Boston: Richard Draper, 1768. Woodcut of Royal Arms at top, woodcut initial capital., uneven borders, small hole in upper right not affecting text. Docketed on verso "The Rev. Mr. Smith, Weymouth."
AN UNINTENTIONALLY IRONIC EXPRESSION OF THANKSGIVING AND HUMBLE LOYALTY TO KING GEORGE III, just as the political crisis between the Colonists and king were intensifying. Governor Barnard designates 1 December “to be a day of public Thanksgiving, that we may thereupon with one heart and voice return our most humble thanks to Almighty God…that he hath been pleased to preserve and maintain our most gracious sovereign King George in health and wealth, in peace and honor…[and] that He hath been pleased to prosper the whole British Empire by the preservation of peace, and the Improvement of the Sources of National Wealth…” Barnard directs the reading of the proclamation in churches. This copy came to the hands of Rev. Smith in Weymouth. By the end of 1768, disagreement over the sources and control of that wealth was precisely what would disturb the peace and unity of the colonies, and fundamentally alter their attitude toward their “gracious sovereign.” Evans 10964
AN UNINTENTIONALLY IRONIC EXPRESSION OF THANKSGIVING AND HUMBLE LOYALTY TO KING GEORGE III, just as the political crisis between the Colonists and king were intensifying. Governor Barnard designates 1 December “to be a day of public Thanksgiving, that we may thereupon with one heart and voice return our most humble thanks to Almighty God…that he hath been pleased to preserve and maintain our most gracious sovereign King George in health and wealth, in peace and honor…[and] that He hath been pleased to prosper the whole British Empire by the preservation of peace, and the Improvement of the Sources of National Wealth…” Barnard directs the reading of the proclamation in churches. This copy came to the hands of Rev. Smith in Weymouth. By the end of 1768, disagreement over the sources and control of that wealth was precisely what would disturb the peace and unity of the colonies, and fundamentally alter their attitude toward their “gracious sovereign.” Evans 10964