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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 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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:''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.''
    
== References ==
 
== References ==
    
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