FIRST - English Thanksgiving In Virginia
Posted by: Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
N 37° 19.863 W 077° 11.443
18S E 305914 N 4133848
Marker commemorating the first Thanksgiving in Virginia.
Waymark Code: WMT4DX
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Zork V
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V70
FIRST ENGLISH
THANKSGIVING
IN VIRGINIA 

On 4 Dec. 1619, Capt. John Woodlief, a member of the Virginia Company, arrived aboard the ship Margaret with 35 men to take charge of Berkeley Hundred.  An experienced former Jamestown settler, he became Berkeley's first governor.  He bore instructions that the day of his ship's arrival "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to almighty God."  Beginning in 1958, the Virginia First Thanksgiving Festival commemorated this directive as the first English Thanksgiving in North America with an annual reenactment at nearby Berkeley Plantation.

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Date of FIRST: 12/04/1619

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