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[McKean, Thomas Thanksgiving Proclamation] - Dated October 26, 1781 as printed in the Journals of The United States In Congress Assembled, 1781 – 1782, published by Order Of Congress, Volume VII, 10 ½” x 8 ¼”, New York: Printed by John Patterson, 1787.
On October 24th, 1781 President Thomas McKean received news of the Victory at Yorktown and the entire congress unanimously resolved to adjourn and go to church to "… return thanks to Almighty God …” [i] The religious services were held at the Dutch Lutheran Church and conducted by Chaplain George Duffield. Two days later the United States in Congressed Assembled under the leadership and partial authorship of President McKean issued a Proclamation in part:
Whereas, it hath pleased Almighty God, the supreme Disposer of all Events father of mercies, remarkably to assist and support the United States of America in their important struggle for liberty, against the long continued efforts of a powerful nation: it is the duty of all ranks to observe and thankfully acknowledge the interpositions of his Providence in their behalf. Through the whole of the contest, from its first rise to this time, the influence of divine Providence may be clearly perceived in many signal instances, of which we mention but a few …
It is therefore recommended to the several states to set apart the 13th day of December next, to be religiously observed as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer; that all the people may assemble on that day, with grateful hearts, to celebrate the praises of our gracious Benefactor; to confess our manifold sins; to offer up our most fervent supplications to the God of all grace, that it may please Him to pardon our offences, and incline our hearts for the future to keep all his laws … By Order of the United States in Congress Assembled Thomas McKean, President"
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[McKean, Thomas] Divorce Proclamation, Aurora General Advertiser, Philadelphia, June 17, 1802. On page 3 under the state seal is An Act Dissolving the Marriage between David McKissick and Margaret his wife. States that the husband was convicted of rape, escaped from jail:
....And where the commission of a crime so wicked by a married man justly entitles his injured partner to a divorce, and the law now existing has not expressly provided relief in the premises, therefore, Be it enacted ...That the marriage...is hereby declared to be void and annulled...
With the act signed in type by the governor, Thomas McKean there were no laws governing such divorce circumstances and, as a result, the annulment required an exemplification from the legislature that had to be signed by the governor.
Thomas McKean served as Chief Justice of Pennsylvania when he served as President of the United States. He resigned from the bench upon being elected Governor of Pennsylvania at a time when the more prestigious and paying public offices were found in the States. This trend has reversed in the last 200 years and now divorces are not the provenance of Governors. They are assigned to elected Common Plea Judges in County Family Courts. The least popular assignment is Family Court where “baby judges” (Novices) are typically assigned. Ironically, this nation was built on marriages. Empires have been won and lost over love/marriage. In 21st Century Pennsylvania distraught citizens are herded into motions court with a gallery of people and lawyers looking on as inexperience Judges and Lawyers scold, lie, and pontificate playing fast and loose with the law for the sake of expediency and epideictics. They were not concerned with forensics as no recordings are in motion’s court where 90% of the court marital decisions made. What would Thomas McKean Do? This historian believes he would scrap the broken family court system and start over like he did with the Constitution of 1777.
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