"Gobbling" isn't all there is to
Thanksgiving Day, really....
What's the meaning of this?
Thanksgiving in Historic American Style
Governor Bradford’s Thanksgiving Proclamation - 1623
(click here for WORD doc)
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.
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 day time, 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
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