Record #:

32236

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

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.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 26 Issue 12, Nov 1958, p11

Subject(s):

Thanksgiving Day--History