Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John A. Andrew, Governor: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise: ... Thursday, the 26th day of November next ... Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this first day of October ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three

be published and promulgated to the people of Massachusetts in the same manner in which the Proclamation of the Governor of Massachusetts is accustomed to be promulgated, ordaining the Annual Thanksgiving observed in this Commonwealth. I earnestly trust not only that in all our Churches and Congregations of religious worship the day may be observed by becoming acts of public thanksgiving, but that every heart may find an altar on which to lay its offering of humble and grateful praise. Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this twenty-seventh day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three^ and the eighty-eighth of the Independence of the United States.

Signed: John A. Andrew. By His Excellency the Governor: Oliver Warner, Secretary. Followed by: By His Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America: a proclamation For a Day of Thanksgiving, Praise, and Prayer ... Thursday, the sixth day of August next ... Done at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three ...