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Throughout North Carolina's history, a day of \"Thanksgiving\" has been declared on various dates, sometimes twice in one year. Governor Arthur Dobbs issued the first state proclamation of Thanksgiving, setting aside June 7, 1758, \"as a day of fasting and supplication.\" 1758 actually saw two Thanksgivings, as Dobbs followed his original proclamation with another for the first Wednesday in December of that year. After multiple proclamations from various governors, the first Continental Congress, and Presidents Washington and Madison, President Abraham Lincoln set the modern standard when he established the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
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14621
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The first state observed Thanksgiving took place in New Bern on April 29, 1758. The date of observing Thanksgiving would continue to change until Abraham Lincoln's 1864 proclamation that set the last Thursday in November as the official day. Though the date changed, the sentiment for the holiday remained the same as a day for blessings and prayers.
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15490
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North Carolinians celebrated the first Thanksgiving on September 22, 1712. The date was chosen to remember the Tuscarora massacre. This event happened on the same date in 1711 when a Tuscarora attack provoked settlers who retaliated and decimated the Tuscarora tribe around the Pamlico Sound.
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32236
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North Carolina has observed Thanksgiving since it was proclaimed in 1758, but was not celebrated on the same day until President Lincoln decried that it would fall on the fourth Thursday of every November. Contrary to the story of the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving, NC’s first was an act of penance in hopes that God would ease the dangers of the French-Indian War.
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