While the colonists of Plymouth had five kernels of corn each (per meal or per day, can’t remember) to survive.
They were Godly men and women and did not revert to cannibalism.
When they had their great feast the following Autumn, on each person’s plate had five kernels of corn, so they would remember when times weren’t so plentiful.
The colonists of Plymouth were a very different type of people from the Jamestown settlers. There were some cultural distinctions in the regions.
I tend toward believing the accounts of the Jamestown letter-writers.
Plymouth was founded mainly as a refuge for religious freedom.
Jamestown was for-profit from day one.
Oh here we go, the usual glorification of the Pilgrims who came a dozen years after Jamestown and had the benefit of the bitter lessons learned there. Even on an internet thread hundreds of years later their prideful spawn will continue to try to denigrate Jamestown’s history of being the first colony. Typical.
The Starving Times are a well known part of early Jamestown history and I’m surprised to see this presented as if it were controversial. The land chosen for Jamestown turned out to be an inhospitable malarial swamp unsuitable for agriculture and only 60 of the 500 colonists survived the 1609-10 season.
Colonization is really hard and colonials were on their own without support. They might as well have been on the Moon. The Virginia Company investors back in London were slow to send the help that the colonials actually in Virginia were begging for.
But despite all the death and even cannibalism the Virginia colony survived, and they celebrated several Thanksgivings well before the pretentious glory hogs who stopped for a beer run up in Massachusetts began claiming everything of importance for themselves.