7/10/2023 0 Comments Happy thanksgiving pilgrimsHe taught them which plants were poisonous and which had medicinal powers. It was Squanto who taught the Pilgrims how to tap the maple trees for sap. Squanto’s importance to the Pilgrims was enormous and it can be said that they would not have survived without his help. It was in England where he had learned English. Squanto told the Pilgrims of his voyages across the ocean and his visits to England and Spain. He soon returned with another Indian named Squanto who spoke better English than Samoset. After staying the night Samoset left the next day. He had learned English from the captains of fishing boats that had sailed off the coast. His name was Samoset and he was an Abnaki Indian. The Pilgrims were frightened until the Indian called out “Welcome” (in English!). On Ma, what was to become an important event took place, an Indian brave walked into the Plymouth settlement. Of the 110 Pilgrims and crew who left England, less that 50 survived the first winter. March brought warmer weather and the health of the Pilgrims improved, but many had died during the long winter. The cold, snow and sleet was exceptionally heavy, interfering with the workers as they tried to construct their settlement. The first winter was devastating to the Pilgrims. But the Patuxets were a peaceful group and did not prove to be a threat. The Pilgrims biggest concern was attack by the local Native American Indians. A large brook offered a resource for fish. It was there that the Pilgrims decide to settle. They joined together and named themselves the “Pilgrims.”Īlthough they had first sighted land off Cape Cod they did not settle until they arrived at Plymouth, which had been named by Captain John Smith in 1614. After land was sighted a meeting was held and an agreement was worked out, called the Mayflower Compact, which guaranteed equality and unified the two groups. The long trip led to many disagreements between the “Saints” and the “Strangers”. Many passengers became sick and one person died by the time land was sighted on November 10th. Since there was the danger of fire on the wooden ship, the food had to be eaten cold. The long trip was cold and damp and took 65 days. They sailed from Plymouth, England and aboard were 44 Pilgrims, who called themselves the “Saints”, and 66 others ,whom the Pilgrims called the “Strangers.” 6, 1620 the Pilgrims set sail for the New World on a ship called the Mayflower. It was agreed that the Pilgrims would be given passage and supplies in exchange for their working for their backers for 7 years. Their trip was financed by a group of English investors, the Merchant Adventurers. So they decided to leave Holland and travel to the New World. They considered the Dutch frivolous and their ideas a threat to their children’s education and morality. After a few years their children were speaking Dutch and had become attached to the dutch way of life. In 1609 a group of Pilgrims left England for the religious freedom in Holland where they lived and prospered. The Pilgrims, who celebrated the first thanksgiving in America, were fleeing religious persecution in their native England. The Pilgrims and America’s First Thanksgiving
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