Well, finally someone who knows the difference between Pilgrims and Puritans. The Pilgrims were called that because they set sail on a pilgrimage. They called themselves Separatists, though, when they were in England and Holland. You are right that it is well documented. Gov. Bradford wrote a history of the “Plimoth Plantation”, remember?
(By the way, he was my eighth great grandfather)
Don’t know if this might be of interest to you, but Roger Williams is my great grandfather...many generations removed.
Two of the Indian friends were Samoset and Squanto. Both had lived in England before the Pilgrims had come to America. Squanto was as well-spoken as any Englishman and he was actually more traveled than many of the Pilgrims. Without these two Indians who befriended the Pilgrims and helped to pave the way to a peace treaty and a mutual assistance in hunting and planting crops, Thanksgiving as we know it might not have happened.