Show BACK TO EARLY DAYS record of ving celebration in plymouth colony one of the very earliest records ot of how a day of thanksgiving was observed I 1 in the plymouth colony la to as I 1 follows I 1 in ye yo meetinghouse beginning ome come halfe an hour before nine continued until after twelve twel e blocke e day bebing very cold beginning wt a short prayer then a sang then more larger in prayer after that an other P S alme then the word taught after that prater aben at a P then mal ma e ng merry to the creatures the poorer sort bebing in cited of the richer on october 12 1637 a ing was held mainell tor for these two particulars 1 I faor the victory over the outs ye 2 faor dilation betwixt mr cotton and the other ministers thanksgiving was thus celebrated irregularly in massachusetts as occa coca ion clon suggested sugg eted down to 1680 after which it was annually ordered by the general court not always in novem her bar but generally after the harvests were gathered |