Posted on 11/23/2017 1:32:18 PM PST by Kaslin
The Pilgrims (dubbed “Separatists” by the Church of England), and the Puritans who followed them, believed that the America was their spiritual destiny.
Aboard the Mayflower were 102 passengers, fewer than half of whom were of Pastor John Robinson’s Separatist flock. On November 11, 1620, after a grueling two-month voyage, they dropped anchor at Cape Cod, and heeding the advice and wisdom of their pastor, the Pilgrims drafted a compact that would embody the same principles of government upon which American democracy would rest. It read:
In the name of God, amen. We whose names are under-written…Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic…constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony…the 11th of November…Anno Domini 1620.
John Carver, who had chartered the Mayflower, was chosen as the first governor of the colony. His was the first signature on the Mayflower Compact. William Bradford would soon replace Carver as governor and would serve in that capacity for 31 years. On December 21, 1620, the Pilgrims settled at what would become known as Plymouth.
A replica model of the Mayflower. Created by Norbert Schnitzler.
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St. Paul tells us, “In all things be grateful.”
Meister Eckhart famously said, “If the only prayer you ever say is ‘thank you’, that will be sufficient.”
And this from the menu board at the Amish market near us: “What would you have today if all you had was what you were grateful for yesterday?”
Was in Virginia
A lot of places claim the first Thanksgiving, St. Augustine’s Florida has a good claim.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/first-recorded-thanksgiving-was-in-st-augustine/494066698
Excellent
In Virginia 1619 at Berkley Plantation.
One reader of the article says it was Texas in 1598
It was until the War Between the States. After that the Jamestown colony (in the South) was given second class status and the Massachusetts one (in the North) was supreme.
After all these years I realized they landed at Plymouth in November?!? What on earth did you expect would happen to you until spring?
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