[rollei_list] Re: USian Thanksgiving

Hi Marc,

> This was a practice first started
> at Berkeley Plantation on the James River in
> Virginia in 1619 and later repeated by the
> Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1625.

There certainly were other celebrations prior to the one by the Pilgrims in
MA in 1621 (not 1625), but I don't believe it's an established fact that the
Berkeley "celebration" was the origin of the American traditional
"Thanksgiving", nor that the Plymouth one in 1621 was a "repeat" of the
Berkeley celebration.  I believe the one by the Pilgrims in 1621 is still
the established origin of the American traditional Thanksgiving.

Best Regards, and Happy Thanksgiving (where ever it may have been started),

Austin

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