Virginia Held America's REAL First Thanksgiving

Two years before the Pilgrims' famous feast, a small ship called the Margaret reached Virginia, and the men on board knelt on the bank of the James River and gave thanks, exactly as their written orders told them to. So why does almost nobody know about it? In this video: the 1619 Berkeley Hundred thanksgiving, the 1622 attack that wiped out the settlement, the forgotten papers a president's son found in 1931, and the telegram that made President Kennedy change his Thanksgiving proclamation. CHAPTERS 00:00 December 4, 1619 01:03 The investors and the orders 03:48 The voyage and the first thanksgiving 04:52 George Thorpe and Berkeley Hundred 07:04 March 22, 1622 08:15 The Harrisons, Harrison's Landing and "Taps" 10:00 How Plymouth won the story 10:57 The forgotten papers 12:46 Virginia vs. the White House 14:05 So was it really the first? 15:05 Visiting Berkeley Plantation today Does Virginia deserve the title? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe to Timeless Virginia for more stories of Virginia's history, one place at a time. SOURCES National Park Service, Encyclopedia Virginia (Virginia Humanities), Records of the Virginia Company of London, Smyth of Nibley Papers (New York Public Library), Berkeley Plantation, The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara), Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Washingtonian, Garden & Gun, University of Bristol. CREDITS Historic images: Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey, National Archives, Internet Archive, Rijksmuseum, Royal Museums Greenwich and others (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons photos via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA): Joe Orbin, Michael Dibb, Andrew Hackney, Smash the Iron Cage, Tony Fischer, Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, MPSharwood, Cmyk4317, Pi3.124, Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. Video: Pixabay. Music: CapCut audio library. #Virginia #Thanksgiving #VirginiaHistory