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.
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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.....”