Thanksgiving Holiday in New Jersey. Representative Elias Boudinot of New Jersey proposed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789 for the new Constitution.

For this year 2025, the holiday will happen on November 27.

Thanksgiving Holiday in New Jersey

Does Thanksgiving Holiday originated in New Jersey? Looking at the proclamation below, YES and NO! YES, it was initiated by Representative from New Jersey, Elias Boudinot to make it a national holiday! But on 1621 The “first Thanksgiving” is widely considered to be a 1621 harvest feast shared by Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag people. Thus, there was a thanksgiving day last 1621 but not nationally proclaimed.

September 25th of 1789 when a Congressional Representative from New Jersey, Elias Boudinot, requested then-President George Washington sign a proclamation for a “day of public thanksgiving.”

Elias Boudinot (1740-1821), an Elizabeth, NJ resident and lawyer practicing out of Newark, originally envisioned the holiday as a day of thanksgiving for our nation’s constitution. – Morristown Minute

Washington issued a proclamation on October 3, 1789, designating Thursday, November 26 as a National Day of Thanks. In his proclamation, Washington declared that the necessity for such a day, writing, “That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war.”

Urgent Care Open on Thanksgiving Day

Coincidentally, our very important person Shakira Rivera Watchung, NJ will celebrate her birthday on November 26! So yes, urgent care is open on that day.