They knew nothing about the plants and animals of this unfamiliar land and, although they were able to find some game, soon realized it would not be enough to take 132 people through the winter.
It was far too late in the year for planting and they had not brought sufficient food to last them until spring. While it’s generally believed that the Pilgrims easily adapted to life on the Massachusetts coast that they were readily able to build homes in the wilderness, raise a plentiful harvest of good crops, and find abundant fish and game by all accounts, that was not the case. Nonetheless, the passengers were thankful indeed even jubilant. They arrived in mid-November, after 66 days at sea, laying anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts, well north of established Virginia Company territory. And, on September 16, 1620, under the command of Captain Christopher Jones, the Mayflower, with 102 passengers some English Separatists, some indentured servants and a crew of about 30 aboard, set sail once again. Eventually, it was decided that the Mayflower, a cargo ship roughly 80 feet long and 24 feet wide, would receive the Speedwell’s passengers. Efforts were made to make the Speedwell seaworthy, but to no avail. But the Speedwell began taking on water, and both ships returned to port. On August 15, 1620, two ships, the Mayflower and the Speedwell, set sail from London, England, for ‘Virginia’ (virgin territory), a name that at the time, applied to the entire northeast coast of North America. And, next year, Americans will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower, and the Pilgrims, to the shores of Massachusetts. But it’s also a time when we commemorate the success of the Pilgrims the Separatists who came here from England to establish the Plymouth colony. (Henry Allen) Ironside a Canadian-American Bible teacher, preacher, theologian, pastor, member of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, and one of the most inspired Christian writers of the 20th Century.įor most Americans, Thanksgiving is exactly that a time of giving thanks. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” These are the words of H.A.
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