By the Honorable William Pitkin, Esq; governor of His Majesty's English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America. A proclamation : ... I ... do hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of this instant, June, to be religiously observed as a day of public thanksgiving throughout this colony ... Given under my hand at the Council chamber in Hartford, the twelfth day of June ... 1766. - Pitkin, William, (Printed by Thomas Green, at the Heart and Crown, opposite the State-House, in Hartford,, 1766)