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mahatmakanejeeves

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6. On this day, December 4, 1619, English settlers celebrated their first Thanksgiving in Virginia.

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Sun Dec 4, 2022, 08:37 AM

Dec 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_4

• 1619 – Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."

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The First Thanksgiving Took Place in Virginia, not Massachusetts. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2022 OP

Either way, it did not turn out so well for the nation's Native Americans... hlthe2b Nov 2022 #1

The cranberry sauce must have come later. Sneederbunk Nov 2022 #2

This is my historical understanding of the first Thanksgiving. SlimJimmy Nov 2022 #3

Thanks. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2022 #4

Correct, thanks for posting this. appalachiablue Nov 2022 #5

On this day, December 4, 1619, English settlers celebrated their first Thanksgiving in Virginia. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 #6