The First Thanksgiving

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth colony after a harsh winter. In that same year, govoner William bradford proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast. Thanksgiving was celebrated throughout the colonies after fall harvests. all thirteeen colonies didn't however celebrate Thanksgiving at the same time until October 1777. George Washington was the first president to declare the holiday in 1789. By the middle of the ninteenth century, many other states also celebrated Thanksgiving. In 1863, president Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of Thanksgiving. since then, each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclomation, usually at the forth Thursday of each November as a holiday!!!!!!!!