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Parent Issue

Signal of Liberty, January 09, 1847

Day

9

Month

January

Year

1847

Copyright

Public Domain

Signal of Liberty

Neill Smith Brown

OCR Text

Gov. Brown, ofnesse, has appointed " the last Sabbath day of the present year as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer."

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