By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq ; lieutenant-governour and commander in chief in and over His Majesty's provincce of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of this instant August ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the 13th day of August 1755 . (Printed by John Draper, printer to His Honour the lieutenant-governour and Council, 1755)