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for The State Vol. 3 Issue 26, Nov 1935
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Abstract:
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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John Branch of Halifax County served three one-year terms as Governor. Like many of his predecessors he fought for education but received little support from the legislature. He had been a member of the NC House and Senate before becoming Governor and was later elected to Congress. He was Secretary of the Navy in President Jackson's administration and the last Governor of the Territory of Florida and the first acting Governor of the State of Florida.