1781 For Your Thanksgiving Day Table November 26, 2014 If you are looking to read one of the old American Thanksgiving Day proclamations around your table this year, here is the 1781 proclamation by Thomas McKean, President of the Congress of the
1777 Thanksgiving Day Proclamations November 21, 2011 Last Wednesday, President Barack Obama issued the annual Presidential Proclamation for Thanksgiving. It is copied below. The first Thanksgiving Day proclamation issued by our government, then the Continental Congress, was issued on November