The Mayflower was a merchant ship that carried 102 passengers, including nearly 40 Protestant Separatists, on a journey from England to the New World in 1620. Through illustrations, graphic panels, photographs, sidebars, and more, kids can explore the little-known details behind the legends of the Mayflower and the first Thanksgiving. Squanto: The Life and Legacy of the Patuxet Native Who Saved the Pilgrims of the Mayflower by Charles River Editors When the Mayflower pilgrims and the Wampanoag sat down for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, it wasn’t actually that big of a deal. Likely, it was just a routine English harvest celebration. In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice... 11 Lesser-known Facts about the Mayflower and Thanksgiving With the Mayflower voyage having been completed over 400 years ago, a UCF historian tells us what the storybooks have right, what they might have wrong and why it’s all still important. 1789 – President George Washington declares the first national day of Thanksgiving for Thursday November 11th. 1837 – Sarah Josepha Hale begins her campaign to get Thanksgiving recognized as an annual national holiday, with a set date. 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln declares a national Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November. In 1620 CE the Mayflower crossed from England to North America. Filled to the brim with passengers, livestock, and supplies, they faced many delays before finally reaching the shores of the New World. The date of Thanksgiving was probably set by Lincoln to somewhat correlate with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod, which occurred on November 21, 1620 (by our modern Gregorian calendar--it was November 11 to the Pilgrims who used the Julian calendar). Who Were the Pilgrims Who Celebrated the First Thanksgiving? An NEH-funded film revisits the Puritan Separatists who arrived aboard the Mayflower. In 1620, the Mayflower plowed across the Atlantic through headwinds and ocean currents at an incredibly slow two miles per hour. The overcrowded vessel’s crossing took more than two harrowing months.
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