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Many people believe the first thanksgiving was held in 1621 but that was just a feast. The actual first thanksgiving was in 1623
The first thanksgiving was in 1621, so this year(2014) it is 393 years ago.
The Pilgrims landed in the future state of Massachusetts on December 1620. So they missed that year's harvest. Thanksgiving was an outgrowth of the widespread celebration of thanks for the harvest throughout many places and times. That celebration therefore was held the following year, in 1621.
There were many official days of thanksgiving in colonial America. The feast that occurred near Plymouth Rock in 1621 was not considered by the Puritans as a "thanksgiving" but rather as a prayer.
143 Edward Winslow reported 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims attended the Thanksgiving event in 1621
Of the original 102 Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, only about half survived to attend the Thanksgiving celebration in 1621. By that time, approximately 50 Pilgrims were alive, having endured a harsh winter that claimed many lives due to illness and food shortages. The Thanksgiving event was a three-day feast shared with the Wampanoag people to celebrate the successful harvest.
There were about one hundred and forty people at the first Thanksgiving.
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The first Thanksgiving was in 1621 at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts.
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Twenty-eight women crossed the ocean on the Mayflower in 1620. By the time of the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621, only four adult women were still alive.
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