By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor of the state of Connecticut, in America. A proclamation : Whereas the General Assembly ... did resolve, that whereas sundry of the inhabitants of this state ... have absconded ... Given under my hand at the Council chamber in Hartford, the 9th day of June, A.D. 1777

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