Thanksgiving proclamation, by Newton Edmunds, governor of the Dakota Territory. : ... I, Newton Edmunds, governor of the Dakota Territory ... do hereby designate and appoint Thursday, the 7th day of December, A.D. 1865, a day of thanksgiving, prayer, and praise ... given under my hand and the great seal of the territory, at Yankton, the capital, this 14th day of November ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five ([Publisher not identified], 1865)