Words from Our Founders: Josiah Bartlett
The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following is a proclamation issued on October 5, 1793 by Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration of Independence and then-Governor of New Hampshire. He calls on the people of his state to give their “most humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for the unmerited favors He has been graciously pleased to confer upon us.”