Posted on 11/25/2025 9:48:18 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
ravages of the savages...
true because it rhymes.
Even if this is the only thing Rush did for me, I owe him for pointing this out.
I like that. He is the source of my emotions.
Hhmmm...just found out one of my hubs ancestors beat the Pilgrims here...and lived to become known as first known white man to live to be 100 in the Northeast...and no vaxes back then!
Looks like a new (old) reading for my presentation before we eat.
When I was in third grade I played Governor Bradford in our Thanksgiving pageant. My lines were, “Greetings Squanto. Greetings Samoset. Welcome to the first Thanksgiving.”
We had finished rehearsal and I was behind the stage curtain bouncing a basketball when someone came in and said that Kennedy had been shot. One of my classmates was named Kennedy so I didn’t make anything of it. Back in Mrs Coffee’s homeroom the school principal came on the intercom and spoke for a long time.
When I got home my mother was crying which confused me because I new that we had supported Nixon in the election. There were no cartoons on TV for days; felt like years.
How time flies.
Those were the days…. My father n law is a descendant as well from Brown!
Yes! Truth and then emotions! ☝️😊
Phil. 4:4!
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