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Myth: The pilgrims wore only black and white clothing with big white linen collars. They had buckles on their hats, garments, and shoes.
Fact: Sorry, but the typical pictures is nowhere near the truth. Buckles did not come into fashion until later in the seventeenth century, and were expensive. Black and white were commonly worn only on Sunday and formal occasions. Women typically dressed in earthy green, brown, blue, violet, red and gray, all colors which could be obtained from natural vegetable dyes, while the men wore clothing in white, beige, black, earthy green, and brown. Most of their clothes were homespun wool, not linen.
Myth: The pilgrims brought furniture with them on the Mayflower.
Fact: The only furniture that the pilgrims brought on the Mayflower was chests and boxes. They constructed wooden furniture once they settled in Plimoth.
Myth: The Mayflower was headed for Virginia, but due to a navigational mistake it ended up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts instead.
Fact: The Pilgrims were in fact planning to settle in Virginia, but not the modern-day state of Virginia. They were part of the “Virginia Company,” which had the rights to most of the eastern seaboard of the United States, commonly refered to as Virginia in deference to Queen Elizabeth I, known as the Virgin Queen.
The pilgrims had intended to go to the Hudson River region in New York State, which would have been considered “Northern Virginia,” but they landed in Cape Cod instead.
Treacherous seas prevented them from venturing further south in their ship, so they settled on the coast and started their colony or ‘plantation’.
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Myth: The original Thanksgiving feast took place on the fourth Thursday of November.
Fact: The original feast in 1621 occurred some time between September 21 and November 11 so far as the records show.
Unlike our modern holiday, it was three days long. The event was based on English and European harvest festivals, which traditionally occurred around Michaelmas, the 23rd of September.
After that first harvest was completed by the Plimoth colonists, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring Indians.
In 1623 a day of fasting and prayer during a period of drought was changed to one of thanksgiving because the rain came during the prayers.
Gradually the custom prevailed in New England of annually celebrating Thanksgiving after the harvest. It was a great opportunity to rest after bringng in the harvest, and making the most of the bounty.
During the American Revolution, a yearly day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress.
In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom, and by the middle of the 19th century many other states had done the same.
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln appointed a day of thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November, which he may have correlated it with the November 21, 1621, anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod.
Since then, each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939, and this was approved by Congress in 1941.
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The History of Thanksgiving in America
Thanksgiving Myths
Myth: The first Thanksgiving was in 1621 and the pilgrims celebrated it every year thereafter.
Fact: The first feast wasn’t repeated, so it wasn’t the beginning of a tradition. In fact, the colonists didn’t even call the day Thanksgiving.
To them, a thanksgiving was a religious holiday in which they would go to church and thank God for a specific event, such as the winning of a battle.
On such a religious day, the types of recreational activities that the pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians participated in during the 1621 harvest feast–dancing, singing secular songs, playing games–wouldn’t have been allowed.
The feast was a secular celebration, so it never would have been considered a thanksgiving in the pilgrims’ minds. It was more of a harvest festival.
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The Pilgrims’ Menu at the first Thanksgiving?
Based on what we know of life at the Plimoth Plantation, we can speculate that the following foods may have been on the menu:
Seafood: Cod, Eel, Clams, Lobster, Whale
Wild Fowl: Wild Turkey, Goose, Duck, Crane, Swan, Partridge, Eagles
Meat: Venison, Seal
Grain: Wheat Flour, Indian Corn
Vegetables: Pumpkin, Peas, Beans, Onions, Lettuce, Radishes, Carrots
Fruit: Plums, Grapes
Nuts: Walnuts, Chestnuts, Acorns
Herbs and Seasonings: Olive Oil, Liverwort, Leeks, Dried Currants, Parsnips
What Was Not on the Menu
Surprisingly, the following foods, all considered staples of the modern Thanksgiving meal, didn’t appear on the pilgrims’ first feast table, for various reasons.
Ham: There is no evidence that the colonists had butchered a pig by this time, though they had brought pigs with them from England.
Sweet Potatoes/Potatoes: These were not common at the time, being more of a South American or African tuber at this period.
Corn on the Cob: Corn was kept dried out at this time of year, not eaten fresh.
Cranberry Sauce: The colonists had cranberries, but no sugar at this time.
Pumpkin Pie: It’s not a recipe that existed at this point, though the pilgrims had recipes for stewed pumpkin.
Chicken/Eggs: We know that the colonists brought hens with them from England, but it’s unknown how many they had left at this point, or whether the hens were still laying.
Milk: No cows had been aboard the Mayflower, though it’s possible that the colonists used goat milk to make cheese.
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