The First Thanksgiving: A Celebration of Friendship and Abundance
Discover the origins of the first Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Pilgrims and their Indian friends, Squanto and Samoset. After a successful summer of planting crops in Plymouth, the Pilgrims invited around 90 Native Americans to join their autumn harvest feast in mid-October. With an abundance of food including turkey, deer meat, and fresh seafood, the gathering brought together 70 Pilgrims and their allies in a display of camaraderie. Explore the customs and foods that marked this historic occasion, which laid the foundation for our modern Thanksgiving celebration.
The First Thanksgiving: A Celebration of Friendship and Abundance
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By Callaway The first thanksgiving
With the help of Indian friends Squanto and Samoset, the Pilgrims were able to grow an abundance of food in their first summer in Plymouth Conley. • Then in fall they had a good harvest.
They invited their Indian friends who had helped them. • The indians wanted to provide food to.
Thanksgiving was probably sometime in the middle of October, after the crops were harvest. • It was a big gathering with probably 70 pilgrims and 90 indians
They probably did eat turkey. • There was also deer meat, wild geese , wild duck, lobster, eels, clams, oysters, and many other kinds of fresh fish.
For desert there were wild berries and fruit. • Other things like brownie and cookies were invented later.
Trestle tables were made of saw horses with wooden planks laid across them. • Many people sat on the ground with saw horses.
The women and girls spent most of the time cooking. • the first winter only four women survived.
Then men and boys had running and jumping contests. • The pilgrims shot guns at targets.
When it was dark they went to sleep. • When the Mayflower left in April , captain Jones said he would take back any of the pilgrims that wanted to go.
In the end it was a good thanksgiving and they survived the first winter.
