Show IL NA ad ey 00 mrs iloan wea aa e Y of GOD alia names are underwrites all mi raj ct of out dread roversi 1 ade lord king jsmes by r grace of co of F 11 7 1 4 I 1 f kritall ii france ireland king derender of the faith kv kv evl 1 11 I 1 wa taken ye georic or gov ind adeane emente f ya faith A va 1 41 of our ki ng and Coun voyage to plant y ciril in ye nori herne of virgi dij nij doe by there pter ants mutually it iyo 40 V 1 of gor an d one of ano covenant ic combine a civil body politic for our better and furtherance therance of ends aid and by viltee enache conti tuti and frame fuch jull and equall awes ordinances acts conal ns and ollices froin time to time sif liall be blought boft convenient for I 1 Zin trall ye co loaec unto which we bromir all due on and obedience IW fw f W fw f W aw f W IW I 1 aa in have hereunder at cape codd ya f v V 2 oil ye year insigne lord of t france bireland yo and of scotland y fifty bourth an D om 1620 n 4 A MO W Z 7 1 S 0 V N re S 10 L 0 X 1 I K 4 ay V 47 AW art TS 53 P A IV A by ELMO scort FT WATSON VERY american knows that we owe our annual holiday of thanksgiving to the pilgrims that hint little hand band of self exiled who two months of wear beur journey across seemingly endless carne came at last to the stern and rockbound rock bound coast of their future home even after they had reached their goal safely their situation was nat one which would or be considered a cause for 4 arn gratitude ill their dir su supply VP ly of food was al alarmingly armin gly low winter lay beav upon the lie land before them and gave little hope of replenishing their larders and they were confronted with unknown dangers in tills this wilderness yet no sooner had they made their historic landing on plymouth rock hock on december 23 1620 than they celebrated the first thanksgiving ever observed in this country that celebration Is described in the words of william bradford their first governor as follows being thus arrived in good harbor and brought eafe to land thoy hy fell upon their knees and blessed ye god of heaven who hd had brought them over ye vast A furious ocean and delivered them from nil ye miseries thereof again to met their feete on ye firma and stable earth their proper elements ele menta I 1 they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertained entert enter alne taine or refresh their beaten body no houses or much le townes to repaire too too seek for succours suc cours coure it Is in recorded in scripture na as a merele mercle to ye apostle ha bis ship raked company that the barbarians chewed them no amale kindness in refreshing them but these theme sa savage ft ge barbarians when they mette with them were readier to lo fill their side aide full of arrow than otherwise neither could they hay as it were goe up to ye top of pisgah to vew from this wild wilderness ernes a mars goodly to fed their hopes for or which way they turned their eye save upward to ye heavens they could have little solace or r content in of any outward objects they had much more cause for thanksgiving a year later and the result was wag another celebration of a kind which has survived to in something of its original form for more than BOO years and promises to continue for all time na as one of the roost most distinctively american of all our holidays that first winter had been a terrible one for the P lg rims grIms huddled aboard the mayflower until late in march sickness laid a heavy hand upon them and ut at one time nil but six alz were buffering from some III or other by april they had established rude homes on shore the may blower hod bad left and they started planting crops the Ind indians inns instead of being ready to fill their isida felda full of arrows proved friendly and helpful in planting land and caring fir fi ft r their crops of corn barley and peas all through the summer they watched those crops with anxious care and when october came there was a bountiful harvest says bays governor bradford they began now to gather in ye small email harvest they had and to fit up their houses and dwellings dwelling against winter berng being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good bentle pen tle e for as some were employed in affairs abroad others were exercised in fl fishing abing about codd bass ft other ather fish of which they tooke good store of which every family had their portion all ye bomer ther was no wante and now begane to come coma in a store of foule as winter approached pro pron preached ached ched of which this place p ace did abounded abo unde when they came first but afterwards decreased by decrees and of these they tooke many balds 9 ver venison ilson besides they had aboyte a peck of meale a fealte to a person or now since harvest indian corn to right proportion which made many afterwards write to so largely of their plentis hear to their friends in england which were not bained but were true reports now indeed did the 1111 pilgrims grims there were only 65 55 of them now hardship and undernourishment had taken their toll durant the eliter an and d spring and 47 of the original company were burled buried on the hill overlooking their landing place have cause for gratitude accordingly governor bradford proclaimed a three day celebration of thanksgiving furthermore in app alon of the Ind indians lans friendly aid it was decided to invite chief rind and his tribesmen rd fd IV ward ard winslow one of the participants tells of the us follows our harvest being gotten in our cohernour Cover nour sent roure foura men on fo fowling ling that so we might after more manner rejoyce together after we the tb fruit ot our labour they foure four T jalcs 41 TJ fj g g 4 01 t THE MAYFLOWER PASSENGER LIST t 4 ff mr lassic At lerton mra mr isaac mary Al albarton Allar larton too Y cr allerton amary mary allock allerton a jh bartholomew allerton f john 1 I jann jo a alam S peor par bro brown ne richard Britte ridge Bitte betteridge ridge joho john Bil billingto linto mrs mr jachn eln billinton i ajohn john blinton B jr francis ril billinton linton mr Brew brewstor str 7 alm mr william mary brewster lov lava brewster Brewit ef anuj ns nr wrestled brewter brewster mr willem wulla bradford mrs eulam dorothy bradford john carver A mrs mr john catherina Calli Cath erine evina carver mrs mr carvers wild meld john Crak cra Cracks Crait cratton ton g c crox 01 1 john ton jr i re roert ert carter y fra li caoli v john cocke cock j lithard clark 4 Hu onty clep james chilton Y M a james chilton edwrd doty daam davey S french elon eaton ami MM i mrs mr francl francis sarah eaton eatha samuel caten thomas thoma english anush ely mr samuel fuller fullar edward fuller mrs mr edard funer fuller sensual samuel furer fuler jr moses mose pletcher john goodman richard gardner cardor gardiner john howland john hooke hook mr steven St stephen eolien hopkins mr mm stele stavn elizabeth hopman const constant nt costan Cm Coata stan ac hopkins fawaz duparl hopkins 0 eames can as hopkala giles willam will am holbeck halbeck wilbam hlll am latham john joha edward Lel cater soester jasper more mor ric mc ard more mort ellen mor mar dest minter mr ch martin mrs mr christopher martin mr willara will am molines Mol collines lines blu lins mrs art emam win ani molines priscilla moline in one day killed as much fowle as with st a little help beside served the company almost a week at which time amongst other recreations we exercised our armes armea many of the indians coming amongal us and amone t the rest their greatest king blas aaa with some borne ninety men whom for three days we entertained and feasted and they went 0 out u t and killed five deere which they brought to th the e plantation and bestowed on our governour nour and upon the captain standish sh and others it Is from that hat historic feast years ago that our annual observance of a thanksgiving day may be traced and although some of its original may have hae been lost by americans of the present day it Is one of our heritages from the Ill pilgrims grims but an fetisa tiny lay and nna another holiday from our everyday every day tiny tasks la Is in reality the least of the lie reasons why we should hold the pilgrims to in grateful remembrance defore before they left englund england to sek s ek a home first in holland and later in america these pilgrims had been known as separatists that Is people who bell believed eved that eliat the church and state should be separated so them jhc thc brought to 0 o th new world the germ of the idea of religious freedom and their idea of the separation of church and state became one of the cardinal cardin nl principles of the new nen nation when it ava was founded years later but as a distinguished Rug englishman lishman sir arthur B F shipley pley vice chancellor of cambridge sity city writing of these people during the 1111 pilgrim grim tercentenary cete cerebration bration in 1020 lias has observed cd too roo much stress must not be laid baidas as the clergy are apt to t lay it on the purely religious pies which impelled our Ill pilgrims grims to make their great break with their life in ili the old world still the fact that they came not entirely for gain played a large part in their success is as colonl colonizers zem not only hart had they the high spirit of enterprise but they sad had the he sober bober constant con staat jseph joseph edmund margeson Mare oo 4 solomon salomon D frie Deg degory pried f thomas thoma rogers coph roger refer john ridgedale Rid fedal lUd ludgate gaMe mrs mr Johni JohnA jAlice Uc rifel george georce soule sole sol soul ellas ella story caal standish Stand lih mrs mi rose rodj standish henry hanry samson salmon sampson Sa trevore trevour edward thomson Thom pop thomson b edwa edwd d tillit tilly tiney mrs mr edward ann ami I 1 Erita both TUU tillie I 1 john tillie mrs mm ddn Bri bridaet aget tillie thomas tinker mm mr thorna thomas TI tinker ker anber roger wilar mr edward winslow mrs mr edward EUm elizabeth beth window 4 mr white mrs mr william Susa sucana Su uana ww whit 4 whit or thomas Wilf willam ams gilbert winslow mr richard warren i H i ity fly of enduring industry to be a successful colonist one must not only have the lighthearted light hearted venturous adventurous ad spirit of ll awkins drake and raleigh but a deep and abiding seriousness of purpose this the pilgrims had and in spite of 0 persecution find and their stern qualities enabled them to endure to the end and if they were intolerant they less so eo than their successors ces sors the puritans they supplied that element in new england which la Is expressed by tho englishman who has described the new eng tander lander as the least cast wind made flesh in order to be able to come tt to a land where they could have the religious freedom which they desired they entered bettered into a financial agreement with the merchant adventurers of london wherein the merchants furnished the capital and the tha pilgrims furnished the service eel vice under the borms torms of the ogre agreement ement which wits was to last seven years no lands or goods should be divided in order that the investors might receive a profit thus they mortgaged their future for seven yeara yeam nut but scarcely had they reached their new harres than the typically english respect for law lavi and order manifested itself and the political motive was added to thy the religious commercial on november 11 0 they drew up the now famous mayfle mayflower w er compact which was waa sl signed ened I 1 by y tho 41 men of the colony it was thought go good wa that there should be an association and agreement writes governor bradford that we should combine together in one body and to submit t tt such government and governors us tas we should by common consent agree to make and choose and set iet our hands to thle this that follows fellows word for fop word brief as Is tills this historic document it contained 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