NOVEMBER 26 "WILLIAM BRADFORD & THANKSGIVING"
To All Ye Pilgrims: In as much as
the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn,
wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to
abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and in as much 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 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 ye 29th of the
year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and 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.
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