Thanksgiving History

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Thanksgiving History

• First was in Virginia in 1619

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Thanksgiving History

• Pilgrims celebrated a bountiful harvest in 1621
  (3-day feast acknowledging God as the giver of
  blessings)

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Thanksgiving History

• Day of Thanksgiving occurred sporadically over
  the next 250 years, but always acknowledging God
  as the Provider

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Thanksgiving History

• President Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed the last
  Thursday in November as a national day of
  thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent
  Father
• Beneficent kind, charitable, beneficial