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Thanksgiving Across America Through the Ages
A lengthy historical survey traces Thanksgiving from its Puritan roots in 1630 to its spread across the colonies and South, noting early fasts and feasts, Harvard fixes the date on the last Thursday in November, Virginia and southern states adopting Thanksgiving in the 1850s, and wartime disruptions, with reference to notable events such as the 1783 New York evacuation and the 1816 gas-lit theater in Philadelphia.
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New York
Philadelphia
Kugler
Lookout Mountain
United States
Connecticut
John Winthrop
Massachusetts
America
England
Massachusetts Bay
New England
Charlestown
Winthrop
Gov. Kieft
Nieuw Amsterdam
Manhattan Island
Forbes
Fort Duquesne
Allegheny
Monongahela
Fort Pitt
Pittsburg
New Hampshire
Warvard College
Harvard
South
Virginia
One Johns
Mason and Dixon
Gov. Johns
Washington
Gov. Wise— Johns
Wise
Dixie
London
Paris
Berlin
Rome
Sam
William Astor Chanler
Clinton
City
Young Republic