Georgia Provincial Congress (July 7, 1775) received from Savannah, the Provincial Governor's appointment of a Day of Fasting and Prayer:
<Gentlemen: I have taken the opinion of His Majesty's Council relative to the request made by the gentlemen who have assembled together by the name of a Provincial Congress, and must premise, that I cannot consider that meeting as constitutional; but as the request is expressed in such loyal and dutiful terms, and the ends proposed being such as every good man must most ardently wish for, I will certainly appoint a day of Fasting and Prayer to be observed throughout this Province.
Jas. Wright.> 1775GP003
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Endnotes:
1775GP003. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Georgia Provincial Congress, July 7, 1775. Verna M. Hall and Rosalie J. Slater, The Christian History of the American Revolution (San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian Education, 1976), pp. 525-526.