Thanks for the post. Even farther back than this, - the Pilgrims lived in Leiden, Holland Posted: Nov 23rd, 2017 - 6:27 am In Reply to: The true story of Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims. - In the 1600s the Church of England
from 1609 to 1620. Each Oct. Holland, celebrated an annual day of thanksgiving for the end of the bloody pillaging, called "Spanish Furies"
Leiden also had a Jewish population.
Spain had driven out the Muslims, who had occupied their country for seven centuries, but then they forced the Jews out, with many fleeing to Holland. This is where the Pilgrims became acquainted with
Sephardic Jews and their Feast of Thanksgiving known as "Sukkot," which was celebrated annually September-October. Many people think Columbus was Jewish.
Pilgrim leader Edward Winslow wrote:
"Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors.
They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week.
At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms,
many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others."
Pilgrim Governor William Bradford wrote about it too.
They acknowledge Squanto and thanked God for him. With Squanto's help the Pilgrims had an abundant harvest in 1621. Squanto also put the Pilgrims on good terms with the Wampanoag tribe.
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