Originally Posted by marketsmart

my great great great grandfather lived in plymouth and they celebrated on sunday because that was the sabbath day and a day to give thanks..

they also used thanksgiving as an excuse to invite the savages on the same day they held church service in an attempt to get them to embrace christianity..

so, you stand corrected that thanksgiving has not always been on thursday..

i believe it was francis xavier thomas that moved thanksgiving to thursdays around 1887 because the shop keeper would close on sundays and you couldn't run out and get anything last minute if one needed like a sack of potatoes or crib of corn..










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