Posted on 11/23/2023 5:48:46 AM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
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
I miss Rush Limbaugh’s annual Governor Bradford’s Thanksgiving Story. I have Rush’s book and read it to my family every Thanksgiving since Rush left us.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Does “first” refer to the thanksgiving or the proclamation? Most sources record 1621 as the year for the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving on our soil. Bradford here states 1623 as the current year. Noticeably, the Pilgrims are enjoined to attend Church and hear their pastor rather that watch Lions vs. Packers.
Yes; an American tradition! His mind would be blown if he saw American today only 3 years after his passing! Listened every day since 98; a big void and hole no one has replaced in media,
You as well!
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Yeah; that’s true; but Go Lions! Great game last Sunday; 1 Thessalonians 5:18😊
....ummmm.... the first “giving of thanks” took place in the Virginia Colony in 1619 I believe....
...”In 1619, a group of settlers who had arrived in the New World and ventured down to a settlement in what is now Virginia held an official Thanksgiving celebration, two years before the better-known meal took place in Massachusetts.
According to Berkeley Plantation historian H. Graham Woodlief, the first Thanksgiving was more about thanking God than eating. It took place at an area called Berkeley Hundred, Va., which would later be home to the Berkeley Plantation and a Georgian mansion built in 1726.....”
Interesting. Looks like Berkeley Plantation has a rich history. Visited Shirley Plantation down the road several years ago
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