![]() ![]() ![]() In September 1620, a group of over one hundred English men and women set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower. Two months later, the three-masted merchant ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, on Wampanoag land, in present-day Massachusetts. In late December, the Mayflower anchored at Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims formed the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England. More than half of the original settlers died during the first winter, but the survivors were eventually able to secure peace treaties with neighboring Native American tribes. The holiday that we have come to know as Thanksgiving was originally a blending of two holidays…a celebration of the harvest, customary to the English, and a religious celebration customary to the Puritans.
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