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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THANKSGIVING See also:

DAY , in the See also:United States, the See also:fourth See also:Thursday in See also:November, annually set apart for thanksgiving by See also:proclamation of the See also:president and of the See also:governors of the various states. The day is observed with religious services in the churches, and, especially in New See also:England, as an occasion for See also:family See also:reunion. The Pilgrims set apart a day for thanks-giving at See also:Plymouth immediately after their first See also:harvest, in 1621; the See also:Massachusetts See also:Bay See also:Colony for the first See also:time in 163o, and frequently thereafter until about 168o, when it became an See also:annual festival in that colony; and See also:Connecticut as See also:early as 1639 and annually after 1647, except in 1675. The Dutch in New Netherland appointed a day for giving thanks in 1644 and occasionally thereafter. During the See also:War of See also:Independence the See also:Continental See also:Congress appointed one or more thanksgiving days each See also:year, except in 1777, each time recommending to the executives of the various states the observance of these days in their states. President See also:Washington appointed a day of thanksgiving (Thursday, the 26th of November) in 1789, and appointed another in 1795. President See also:Madison, in response to resolutions of Congress, set apart a day for thanksgiving at the See also:close of the War of 1812. One was annually appointed by the See also:governor of New See also:York from 1817. In some of the See also:Southern States there was opposition to the observance of such a day on the ground that it was a relic of Puritanic bigotry, but by 1858 proclamations appointing a day of thanksgiving were issued by the governors of twenty-five states and two Territories. President See also:Lincoln appointed the fourth Thursday of November 1864, and since that time each president has annually followed his example. See F. B.

Hough, Proclamations for Thanksgiving (See also:

Albany, 1858) ; W. D. Love, The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England (See also:Boston, 1895) ; May See also:Lowe, " Thanksgiving Day' in New England See also:Magazine (Nov. 1904) ; C. L. See also:Norton, " Thanksgiving Day, Past and See also:Present," in the Magazine of See also:American See also:History (Dec. 1885) ; R. M. Schauffler (ed.), Thanksgiving (New York, 1907).

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