“Although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want.”
These words, written by Pilgrim Edward Winslow, are part of one of the sole primary source accounts of the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
The Pilgrims hadn’t set out for the New World aboard the Mayflower in search of riches or because they were merely looking for an adventure. They were reluctant settlers, opting to sail for America only after spending a decade trying to establish a home for themselves in Holland.
They had left their native England in the 1600s because they were unwilling to let their worship of God be subject to the whims of the English monarchy.
The Mayflower had arrived in Plymouth in the Fall of 1620, and by November of 1621, nearly half of the ship’s 102 passengers had died. Despite the harsh conditions and unfamiliar territory, the settlers persisted and collected a good harvest that year.
That first Thanksgiving was a celebration not of the Pilgrims’ own accomplishments, but of the mercy God showed them in providing for them in the most foreign of lands.
The Christian foundation of Thanksgiving did not die out with the Pilgrims. The Christian nationalists who served in the Continental Congress in 1777 were unequivocal in pointing to God as they issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation for the fledgling United States.
The proclamation set aside a day on which the people of the United States “at one Time and with one Voice” were to “join the penitent Confession of their manifold Sins, whereby they had forfeited every Favor; and their humble and earnest Supplication that it may please GOD through the Merits of JESUS CHRIST, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of Remembrance.”
In 1789 President George Washington declared a national day of Thanksgiving, using similar language to that found in the 1777 declaration. Washington wrote that the day should “be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks.”
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