A Proclamation, for a Day of Public Fasting and Prayer : the Continuation of a Severe ... War ... the Frequent ... Devastations ... Perpetrated in the Frontier Settlements ... the Contagious Mortal Distemper Among Our People ... are Such ... Occasions for ... Humiliation and ... Prayer ... that I Have Thought Fit ... to Appoint, and Do Hereby Appoint Wednesday the Twelfth Day of April Next ... as a Day of Fasting and Prayer ... And I Do Hereby Require the Ministers of the Several Religious Societies in this Colony to Publish this Proclamation to Their ... Congregations ... Given Under My Hand, in the Council-chamber in New-Haven the Twenty-third Day of March ... 1758 ...