By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor of the English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America ; a proclamation : ... I ... do hereby appoint Thursday the ninth day of April next, to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer throughout this colony ... Given under my hand in Windham, the eighteenth day of March ... 1772 (Printed by Timothy Green, printer to the governor and company, 1772)