IT having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many Frowns upon us in the Summer past, with a mixture of some very signal Favours, and in the midst of Wrath so far to remember Mercy; That our Indian Enemies have had a Check put upon their Designs of Blood and Spoil: that others have not seen their Desires accomplished upon us: And that we have such hopes of our God's adding yet more perfection to our Deliverances; Inasmuch also, as the great God hath of late raised up such a Defence to the Protestant Religion and Interest abroad in the World, especially in the happy accession of Their Majesties our Sovereigns, KING William and QƲEEN Mary to the Throne:

It is therefore Ordered, that Thursday the nineteenth of De­cember instant, be kept as a Day of Thanksgiving throughout this Colony; And all Servile Labour on said Day is hereby inhibited. And the several Ministers and Assemblies are Exhorted to Observe the same by Celebrating the just Praises of Almighty God, of whose tender Mercies it is that we are not consumed.