The First Thanksgiving

From Happy Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims had a feast in 1621, after their first harvest. This feast has become known as “The First Thanksgiving.” This painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris is titled, “The First Thanksgiving.”

They were a group of Puritans who landed at Plymouth Rock, in what is now Massachusetts, United States, in 1620. In 1621 Governor William Bradford of New England proclaimed a day of “thanksgiving” and prayer to celebrate the Pilgrims’ first harvest in America. United States president Abraham Lincoln, following the precedent of a number of states, designated a national Thanksgiving Day in 1863. Now Thanksgiving Day falls annually on the fourth Thursday of November.