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| The images on this page are from the recreated settlement, Plimoth Plantation. It is one of the most impressive living history villages in the world. The curators of Plimoth Plantation have done, and continue to do, intensive study to insure the accuracy of even the smallest details of this recreated 1620's Plimoth Colony. Above and bottom right, a recreation of the meeting house which once stood on what's now known as Burial Hill, a short distance away from Plimoth Plantation. |
| Left, the settlement's baking oven |
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| Left, recreation of a gravemarker from the 1600's |
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| A Wampanoag Native American hut |
| Right, an original chair from Governor Bradford's house |
| Above, Governor Bradford's Prayer Book |
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| The dangers were great, but not desperate; the difficulties were many, but not invincible...their ends were good and honorable...and therefore they might expect the blessing of God. -- William Bradford |
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| Above and below, recreated home of Governor Bradford at Plimoth Plantation |
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| Burial Hill, Plymouth, MA; above, ca. 1930; below, current |
| Governor Bradford's monument |
| Mayflower II in Plymouth Harbor |
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| My 8-g-grandfather, Edward Doty's oil lamp, brought with him on The Mayflower; on exhibit at Pilgrim Hall |
| From Governor William Bradford's Journal, his entry on their safe arrival: "Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed ye God of heaven, who had brought them over ye vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all ye periles and miseries thereof, againe to set their feete on ye firme and stable earth. And no marvel if they were thus joyefull. I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amased at this poore people's presente condition. Being thus passed ye vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation, they had now no friends to wellcome them, nor inns to refresh their weatherbeaten bodys, no houses to repaire to, to seeke for succoure. What could not sustaine them but ye spirite of God and his grace? Ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this willderness; but they cried unto ye Lord, and he heard their voyce, and looked on their adversitie..." |
| The link to this page is: http://www.thepastwhispers.com/Thanksgiving_2009.html Please don't use the "Send Page" feature of your computer to send this page in e-mail format; if you'd like to share it, please just send a link. Thank you. Nancy |
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| Music: Bless the Beasts and the Children Friday's Journal The Past Whispers - Home Old New Orleans |
| Thanksgiving, 2010 Index Autumn, 2010 Index My Pilgrim Pages: Beginnings: Early American Homes of Massachusetts The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims" Edward Doty: My Mayflower Ancestor Photos on this page are courtesy of: libdespot; livelaughlove; GalenFrysinger; dbking; Library of Congress; Pilgrim Hall |
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| Burial Hill, Plymouth, MA It was on this hill that The Mayflower's passengers first settled in 1620 and built their meeting house and fort. And it was here they buried the colonists who did not survive the first difficult winter in America. The residents of Plymouth continued to use this hilltop burying ground for over 300 years. I don't know the location of the grave of my 8th g-grandfather, Edward Doty, who was a passenger on The Mayflower, but it is to him - and to the other Pilgrims and Adventurers of Plymouth Colony - that I pay tribute this Thanksgiving, 2009. Nancy |
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