By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut. A proclamation : Whereas it hath pleased a holy and righteous God ... to suffer this land to be visited with the calamities of a sore and distressing war ... Given under my hand at Lebanon in said state, the 5th day of August, A.D. 1779 ([Printed by Hudson and Goodwin?], 1779)