By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proclamation. For a day of thanksgiving : ... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of November instant, (the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the fourth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two . ([Printed by Edward Eveleth Powars], 1782)