[D Rider]

Yes, and next year will be the 400th anniversary of the first thanksgiving.

[Seruzawa]

2020 in pictures:

[DoughtyOne]

God has a plan. Thank you God.

[DoughtyOne]

400 years. Very cool...

[sauropod]

Bump

[Myrddin]

Thomas Hinckley

My Mayflower ancestor. My paternal grandmother was an active member of the Mayflower Society.

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmark

[imardmd1]

The "Pilgrims" were not Puritans. When the Puritans came over and established themselves, the two groups didn't get along very well.

In the beginning, the Pilgrims were just an independent autonomous assembly of a few Christians that met for study and worship near the little town of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire. Their church was outside the law, and they were persecuted by the Church of England bishops, even being jailed for it. Finding this condemnation too hard to bear, they secretly left England and reestablished themselves in Holland for some time. There, they were tolerated, and learned how to work out their unity as a church family.

[mass55th]

My 9th great-grandfather was George Soule. He came over on the “Mayflower,” and was a signer of the “Mayflower Compact.” He settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts. There is a reproduction of his house at Plimoth Plantation. I was planning on going there this year, but that idea went to hell.