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[NATIONAL DAY OF THANKSGIVING]. Gazette of the United States. Vol. LVIII. [New York, December 5, 1789]. Four folio pages on one large folded folio sheet of laid-paper. Each page approximately 436 x 270 mm. Edgeworn, with several marginal tears, toned, foxed, each page with vertical and horizontal creases, some chipping at left margins indicating that this was excised from a book. On the third page (p. 271): “So far as our Information extends, the late Federal Thanksgiving has been attended in the several States with that solemnity which became the important occasion. One advantage which has resulted from the Supreme Executives’ of the individual States having republished the proclamation of the President, has been, that the people have thereby been more fully acquainted with this truly federal and devout recommendation of testifying our gratitude as a people, to the Sovereign Lord of All…” In 1789, Congress recommended that the president, George Washington, proclaim a “Day of Publick Thanksgiving” on November 26, 1789. Other articles with letters or speeches by Washington and John Adams, as well as North Carolina’s ratifying the U. S. Constitution. There is an account of the French Revolution, in which the Marquis de Lafayette marched on Versailles.