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THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION - JUNE 20, 1676:
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"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series
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of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr
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with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought
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to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this
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wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst
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of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered
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his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for
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our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion,
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and regard; reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened,
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and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with
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many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them,
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without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been
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sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed,
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It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies
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are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the
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Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of his
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returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as
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not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading
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him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions:
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The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the
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29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving
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and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many
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Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not
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those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent
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to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as
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a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council
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doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people
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of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same
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Beseeching that being perswaded by the mercies of God we may all,
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even this whole people offer up our bodies and soulds as a
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living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."
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The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676)
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On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown,
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Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express
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thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community
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securely established. By unamimous vote they instructed
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Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of
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thanksgiving, our first. That proclamation is reproduced here
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in the same language and spelling as the original.
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Prepared by Gerald Murphy (The Cleveland Free-Net - aa300)
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Distributed by the Cybercasting Services Division of the
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National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN).
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Permission is hereby granted to download, reprint, and/or otherwise
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redistribute this file, provided appropriate point of origin
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credit is given to the preparer(s) and the National Public
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Telecomputing Network.
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