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Thanksgiving Day service for members of the United States Army Air Corps, held in a church in Cransley, Northamptonshire, England, November 23, 1944. The tradition of giving thanks is continued today in many forms, most notably the attendance of religious services, as well as the saying of a mealtime prayer before Thanksgiving dinner. [5]
The holiday is meant to honor the First Thanksgiving, which was a feast of thanksgiving held in Plymouth in 1621, as first recorded in the book Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, one of the Mayflower pilgrims and the colony's second governor.
"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) oil on canvas by Jennie A. Brownscombe. Americans are told the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, when the Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth ...
He was the author of several important pamphlets, including Good Newes from New England and co-wrote with William Bradford the historic Mourt's Relation, which ends with an account of the First Thanksgiving and the abundance of the New World. In 1655 he died of fever while on an English naval expedition in the Caribbean against the Spanish.
Governor Bradford’s decreed, “For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a governor is in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.”
The first Thanksgiving started after the New England colonists survived a harsh winter after landing on Plymouth Rock. Although the Mayflower landed on Plymouth Rock in November of 1620, the first ...
As the first President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God", [23] and calling on Americans to "unite in ...
From the journal entries of both Winslow and Gov. William Bradford, we can gather that there was a lot of fowl, but whether or not there was actually a turkey on the first Thanksgiving is unknown.