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Who celebrated the First Thanksgiving?

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Who celebrated the First Thanksgiving?

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On December 4,1619, a group of 38 English settlers arrived at Berkley Plantation in what is now Charles City, Virginia. The group had a charter that required them to observe the day of their arrival be observed yearly as a day of thanksgiving to God. Captain Joe Woodleaf held the service. In addition to 1619, the colonists possibly held service in 1920 and 1921. In 1922 the colony was wiped out and the event had been limited to the Berkley settlement. What about the Pilgrims? In 1620, the Pilgrims left Europe to travel to the new world motivated by ‘a great hope for advancing the kingdom of Christ’ , according to the pilgrim leader’s diary, William Bradford. The Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Over their first winter nearly half of the 102 original colonists died from pneumonia andd consumption. At one point there were only seven people able to get wood to make fires and care for the sick. But the harvest of 1621 was bountiful. And the remaining colonists decided

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