The Mayflower Ccompact.
It does annoy me how these New Englanders ignore the existence of the REAL first colony — Jamestowne. Jamestowne settlers also celebrated the first Thanksgiving at Berkeley Plantation, but we’ll let those Taxachusetts folks revel in their day of glory! ;^)
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Interesting that James was styled as the King of England, FRANCE, and Ireland...
Samuel Fuller is our adopted daughter’s 9th great grandfather.
El Paso, Texas also claims to be the site of the first Thanksgiving. In 1598, a Spanish expedition heading north through the Chihuahua desert nearly ran out of food and water. Upon reaching the Rio Grande, they held a Thanksgiving feast that included ducks and fish—but apparently no turkey. The expedition went on to establish the first Spanish settlement in New Mexico.
This has developed into a most interesting thread. I’m thinking that those pilgrim hats should be replaced by the metal helmets of the conquistadors, or at least the brown friars’ robes and staff with a cross!
Or, at least, the helmets and breastplates brought to Jamestowne by the earliest pioneers, several examples which have been found at the bottom of garbage pits because they were found to be so unweildy and useless for frontier use.
My family is traceable back to William Bradford. Amazing.