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William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.
In the fall of 1621, Governor William Bradford had a harvest feast and invited intertribal chief Massasoit, the Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag, to join. This celebration became known as the first ...
This sketch depicts a meeting between Massasoit Ousamequin, Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag, and Pilgrim leader Gov. William Bradford. The pair negotiated an agreement that allowed the Pilgrims to ...
Plimoth Patuxet in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was written primarily by Edward Winslow, although William Bradford appears to have written most of the first section. The book describes their relations with the surrounding Native Americans, up to what is commonly called the first Thanksgiving and the arrival of the ship Fortune in November 1621.
Additionally, days of Thanksgiving had been recorded elsewhere on the continent prior to the 1621 event, including Spanish Florida in 1565, [14] Newfoundland in 1578, Popham Colony in what is now Maine in 1607, and Jamestown in 1607 and 1610. [13] Two primary accounts of the 1621 event exist; one is by Edward Winslow, and one by William ...
Governor Bradford’s decreed, “For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a governor is in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.”
Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 1925, National Museum of Women in the Arts. In Protestant Christianity, a day of humiliation or fasting was a publicly proclaimed day of fasting and prayer in response to an event thought to signal God's judgement.
First, the Pilgrim Hall Museum has cited letters from William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth in 1621, who wrote that wild turkeys were part of the original meal that was shared between the ...