Show PF OF thanksgiving while efforts have been made to trace the origin of thanksgiving day buck back to accent times the day as we voe know it appers to be distinctively an american institution our first thanksgiving day was observed by the pilgrims after their harvest at plymouth in 1621 the idea was adopted by the mass bay colony in 1630 by connecticut in 1639 9 and by the dutch settlers in what is ia now new york in 1644 the continental congress appointed several days of thanksgiving during the revolutionary war and washington designated november as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer in for the founding of the new republic he fie also designated a thanksgiving dy day in 1795 precedent Pre madison proclaimed a similar da at the close of the war of 1812 1811 governors of several states called for observance of thanksgiving from time to time but it did not become a permanent day of national significance until the thanksgiving proclamation of Pre president lincon in 1864 since that year every Pre president has issued an annual proclamation for observance of thedac the day what a transition from the conditions surrounding the first thank giving among the struggling colonists in 1621 to the happy estate in which america finds herself in 1924 |