Scott1
Puritanboard Commissioner
In 1623, Governor William Bradford declared:
"Inasmuch
as the great Father has given us
this year
an abundant harvest of
Indian corn,
wheat,
peas,
beans,
squashes, and
garden vegetables and
has made
the forests to abound with game and
the sea with fish and clams, and
inasmuch
as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages,
has spared us from pestilence and disease,
and has granted us freedom to worship God
according to the dictates of our own conscience.
"Now I, your magistrate,
do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones,
do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill,
between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time,
on Thursday, November 29th,
of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three and
the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock,
there to listen to ye pastor and
render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings."
"Inasmuch
as the great Father has given us
this year
an abundant harvest of
Indian corn,
wheat,
peas,
beans,
squashes, and
garden vegetables and
has made
the forests to abound with game and
the sea with fish and clams, and
inasmuch
as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages,
has spared us from pestilence and disease,
and has granted us freedom to worship God
according to the dictates of our own conscience.
"Now I, your magistrate,
do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones,
do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill,
between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time,
on Thursday, November 29th,
of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three and
the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock,
there to listen to ye pastor and
render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings."