USM 001.072. In Provincial Congress broadside, 1775 April 15

Scope and Contents Broadside dated April 15, 1775 at Concord, Massachusetts, containing a resolution recommending "to the good People of this Colony of all Denominations" that May 11, 1775 be "set apart as a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer; that a total Abstinence from servile Labor and Recreation be observed, and all their religious assemblies solemnly convened..." The broadside is dated four days before the Battle of Lexington and Concord.Handwritten note on verso reads '3' for...