Thursday isThanksgiving Day . It ’s a special 24-hour interval for us goats because we get yummy animal crackers , vanilla extract wafer and corn chips with our breakfast . Yippee !
Uzzi and I wanted to bonk more about what Thanksgiving Day think of , so he and I looked it up online . It commemorates a harvest festival hold in a place called Plymouth Colony 1621 , celebrated by 53 mass , call Pilgrims , and member of the Wampanoag Native American tribe .
Most of the people in Plymouth Colony descend to the New World to escape spiritual persecution . After unsuccessfully conciliate in England and the Netherlands , they bought permission from the London Virginia Company to settle at the oral fissure of the Hudson River on state surveyed by Captain John Smith . On Aug. 15 , 1620 , 90 people boarded a ship , called the Mayflower , and an plus 30 boarded another ship , called the Speedwell . The Speedwell leaked and had to return to port , twice , before it was deemed unseaworthy .
So the 100 - foot - long Mayflower left Plymouth , England , on Sept. 6 , 1620 , carry 120 passengers , 30 gang members , their provisions and two dogs . We know that because some of the Pilgrims kept journal and records . No one mention them , but there were probably also chickens and perhaps pigs and goats on board , but the rest of the pilgrim ’ livestock add up on late voyage .
The Mayflower anchored at Provincetown Harbor on Nov. 11 , 1620 , after a two - calendar month Atlantic musical passage . The first Pilgrim babe birth in the New World , Peregrine White , was born aboard the Mayflower a week later on . They finally voyage on to Plymouth Harbor , on the shoring of what ’s now Massachusetts , arriving on December 17 , 1620 .
People aboard the Mayflower had to bring their own food on the ocean trip . Captain John Smith give each family a list . Among the detail was enough food for one man ( we take for granted that meant women , too ) to last a full yr :
They also bring in firearms and powder , article of clothing , cookery utensil , framework for make bedding on the ship and after they reached Plymouth Colony , seeds for planting garden , and even personal point like cradles for future babies .
Forty - five Pilgrims pass away from disease , exposure and famishment the first fierce winter at Plymouth Colony . Of 18 charwoman who sailed aboard the Mayflower , only four were leave behind alive to celebrate the first Thanksgiving .
During the Pilgrims ’ first summer at the colony , the Wampanoag masses taught them to grow aboriginal crop likesquash , pumpkinsand Amerindic corn . They grew crops in large , open fields that they cleared and each family had a kitchen garden , too .
Threecowsarrived at the colony aboard the seafaring ship Anne in 1623 , the same year Emmanual Altham confabulate Plymouth and reported see sixgoats , 50pigsand manychickens . More Bos taurus came aboard the Jacob in 1627 . By May 1627 , there were 16 head of oxen and at least 22 goats in Plymouth Colony . In January 1628 , Myles Standish trade two share of two ewe lambs for two shares of a moo-cow , so a few sheep were also present .
gentleman’s gentleman also run game and gathered fish and shellfish of all kinds , so there was plenty to eat after that first bad winter . According surviving records the Pilgrims and their Wampanoag guests feasted on five deer , manyturkeysand waterfowl , cod , and sea bass at their first crop festival , along with wheat berry , Amerindic corn , barley and pea . They also might have dined on scratch , mussels , lobster , eel , acorns , walnut , chestnut , squashand noggin . And they were so thankful for the food that they feasted for three whole days .
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