Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for our vegetables harvest. It is also time to give thanks to God for the food we put
on our table today. It doesn't matter if we are poor or rich there is always something to be thankful for. WE WISH YOU ALL
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President George Washington proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789 following America's victorious Revolution.
One by one, the states began adopting the day and the date when the Civil War interrupted the process. In 1863 President
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving Day a national day,an in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to set the day
back to the third Thursday in November in order to lengthen the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas-----but tradition
ruled,and it stayed the fourth Thursday of the month!
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation
June 29, 1676
On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks
for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unamimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson,
the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving, our first. That proclamation is reproduced here in the same language
and spelling as the original.
"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen
Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so
that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in
the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard;
reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened, and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with
many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them, without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been
sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed, It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our
Enemies are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of
his returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading
him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions:
The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and
praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those
who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us
as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and
people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being perswaded by the mercies of God
we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and soulds as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."
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