Posted on 11/26/2020 5:18:40 AM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
Governor Bradford's First Thanksgiving Proclamation!
Governor Bradford of Massachusetts made this first Thanksgiving Proclamation three years after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth:
"Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.
In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you! 1 Thes. 5:18
Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the daytime, on Thursday, November 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty three and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings."
William Bradford Ye Governor of Ye Colony
We read this every year at this time. Lived in Plymouth, Massachusetts for many years and were fortunate to be able to visit all of the historical sites. đŠđșđžđ„§
...sorry folks...the first celebration of thanksgiving did NOT take place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but in Virginia in 1619....President Kennedy recognized this in 1963...
For more than a century, the three-day harvest festival among the Pilgrims and Wampanoag tribesmen, likely between September and mid-November 1621 in colonial Massachusetts, had been recognized as the nationâs first Thanksgiving.
However, in the decade prior to Kennedyâs 1963 proclamation, Virginians loudly declared that the first Thanksgiving in the New World was on the shores of the James River in 1619 and not in Massachusetts in 1621 near Plymouth Rock. But no one listened.
Descendants of those Virginia settlers who arrived at what is now Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County aboard the âgood ship Margaretâ claimed documentation proved âAmericaâs first official Thanksgivingâ in Virginia was nearly two years before Massachusettsâ harvest celebration.
Don’t care. Two Thanksgivings are great: a northern one and a southern one
Thanks for that history lesson! Jamestown was a lot different then Plymouth thats for sure.
We visited there! Really neat town! The huge statute etc.
The founding of Jamestown was 1607 and it took 12 years for them to show thankfulness; it took only one year for the pilgrims to show thankfulness!
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Bump
PBS American Experience, The Pilgrims, is an excellent documentary, with lots of quotes from Bradford. You can watch it on their website. I’ve watched it a couple of times.
Except the first Thanksgiving got about four lines in Bradfordâs history of Plimouth. And the Indians were not âinvited.â The crashed the party, but they brought a bunch of venison with them.
In reality, it was most like a party that âgot out of handâ in terms of people and purpose.
All of the stuff developed over the years sounded cool, but were not even close to the reality.
I am not one of those who dump on the Pilgrims or how we treated the Indians. But the 1960âs version of Thanksgiving in Plymouth made no sense when I was a child. The more you learn about itâitâs actually a better story of survival, cooperation, and determination.
The cartoon version is just silly
2020 Version
“Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the fields and forests to abound with livestock and game and the sea with fish and clams, and although He has chastised us for our national sins of abortion and altering His Word, with the ravages of the democrats and their Antifa and BLM Storm Troopers and with the Chinese pestilence and disease, He continues to grant us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience and to proclaim the Gospel of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you! 1 Thes. 5:18
Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye houses, on ye hills, cities and plains on Thursday, November 26th, of the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty three and the four hundredth year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to confess our sins, praise and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings and entreat His unmerited mercy in preserving our Republic.”
and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams... (yeah, that too)
and inasmuch as He has protected us from the ravages of the savages... (well, except for Antifa and BLM riots)...
has spared us from pestilence and disease... (if you're willing to overlook Covid/WuFlu/BoomerDoomer Virus)
has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience (unless Andrew Cuomo is your Governor)."
Watched that movie Monumental where the guy explained that awesome statue with the lady of justice...not sure where it was located but wish I could go there one day to see it.
Lol. . Yeah I would love to see antifia’s Thanksgiving proclamation... lol...
It would be like this...
Psalm 14; Rom. 1:18-32; 3; Jude 1:10!
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