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The Virginia House of Burgesses, in sympathy for its fellow Colony, declared on May 24, 1774:  
 
The Virginia House of Burgesses, in sympathy for its fellow Colony, declared on May 24, 1774:  
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:This House, being deeply impressed with apprehension ... from the hostile invasion of the city of Boston in our Sister Colony of Massachusetts Bay, whose commerce and harbor are, on the first day of June next, to be topped by an armed force ....  Deem it highly necessary that the said first day of June be set
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:This House, being deeply impressed with apprehension ... from the hostile invasion of the city of Boston in our Sister Colony of Massachusetts Bay, whose commerce and harbor are, on the first day of June next, to be topped by an armed force ....  Deem it highly necessary that the said first day of June be set apart, by the members of this House, as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, devoutly to implore the Divine interposition, for averting the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights.
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apart, by the members of this House, as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, devoutly to implore the Divine interposition, for averting the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights.
      
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