FIRST THANKSGIVING IN AMERICA

• The Pilgrims did not celebrate the first Thanksgiving in America
• These days were simply a particular time where they had something significant to thank God
• , a national holiday honoring the early settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving.
• On the fourth Thursday of November
• President Abraham Lincoln declared two national Thanksgivings

THANKSGIVING

• The grateful Pilgrims then declared a three-day feast, starting on December 13, 1621, to thank God for His favor and to celebrate with and thank their Indian
• after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the first fruit of our labors.
• They four in one day killed as much foul as . . . served the company almost a week
• entertained and feasted; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought. . . . BY THE GOODNESS OF GOD WE ARE . . . FAR FROM WANT.
• In October 1789, in the midst of the gruesome Revolutionary War, President George Washington issued the first presidential thanksgiving proclamation as a day for giving thanks to that "great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. . . .

THANKS

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