The story of the first Thanksgiving in what would become the United States has become rather political. Regardless, there are important reasons for keeping the story before us. Therefore, in this spirit, I share with you the full and original text of the first Thanksgiving proclamation after the United States was fully an independent nation, written by our first President, George Washington on October 14, 1789, as published in The Massachusetts Centinel, courtesy of earlyamerica.com:
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