The colonists had to bring apple trees with them aboard ship to the New World. And because apple trees are not native, neither were the insects to pollinate them. Honeybees were also imported. So the story of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple tress wherever he went is true Well, ok he was actually a missionary named Jonathan Chapman, who planted apple nurseries across the mid-west, but the concept is still the same.
Other pioneers took apple trees across the nation; later some even went by wagon along the Oregon Trail. By the late colonial period there were so many apple trees that everyone, even children, drank cider. Water: You probably learned that the colonists lived simple, pastoral lives. And what would they drink besides water? This is only half true. Colonists on rural farms or on the frontier could find natural, clean sources of water, or could dig wells to reach fresh water.
Colonists in the city drank "bottled water," from the countryside. City dwellers used bodies of water for garbage disposal, not drinking.
Just slaughtered a pig? Throw the carcass into the river. Need to empty your chamber pot? Dump it down the well. In defense of the colonists, they did not know about germs or bacteria.
They could however, clearly recognize clean water from dirty water. But clean water was only available outside the city. It was primarily used for making tea; though it was safe to drink alone.
Workers, known as tea-water men, drew the water, sealed it in kegs, and transported it into the city. Having this "bottled water" delivered cost about 45 shillings per year. But in the late colonial era, it took the average tradesman one month to earn that much money. Distilleries kept a stable of such animals, fed them mash and whiskey slops. The milk made the beasts tipsy and often sick. Milk: On the farm it was safe to drink milk, but few people did.
Many of the Pilgrims were members of a Puritan sect known as the Separatists. They believed that membership in the Church of England violated the biblical precepts for true Christians, and they had to break away and form independent congregations that adhered more strictly to divine requirements. It is very possible that if the Pilgrims never came, then Spain would take over the whole continent.
When the pilgrims arrived in the new world, they brought many diseases such as small pox and they took all the land from the Indians that were there. When the th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing was observed in , state officials disinvited a leader of the Wampanoag Nation — the Native American tribe that helped the haggard newcomers survive their first bitter winter — after learning his speech would bemoan the disease, racism and oppression that followed ….
The Pilgrims is the name for the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony, which is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. These people referred to themselves as Separatists. Most of them were either Methodists or Puritans. The original settlers of Plymouth Colony are known as the Pilgrim Fathers, or simply as the Pilgrims. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Thanksgiving What was eaten at the first Thanksgiving?
Ben Davis April 3, What was eaten at the first Thanksgiving? Did the Pilgrims eat turkey on the first Thanksgiving? What did the Pilgrims eat? As we are taught in school, the Indians showed the colonists how to plant native crops. But in later sources, they talk about turnips, carrots, onions, garlic and pumpkins as the sorts of things that they were growing. Of course, to some extent, the exercise of reimagining the spread of food at the celebration becomes a process of elimination.
What are the things on the table? You see lots of pies in the first course and in the second course, meat and fish pies. So what are they putting on instead? Meat without potatoes, that is. White potatoes, originating in South America, and sweet potatoes, from the Caribbean, had yet to infiltrate North America. Also, there would have been no cranberry sauce.
It's not a single tradition, however, but a combination of traditions, according to one researcher. Randall Mason, a researcher for Plimoth Plantation Inc.
In , just months after their arrival from England, residents of Plymouth celebrated a harvest festival, which was indistinguishable from those observed throughout Britain at the time.
It was a secular event with feasting and games. The only religious observance was the saying of grace before the meal. Two years later, the governor of Plymouth colony called for a special day of religious thanksgiving for the end of a drought that plagued the colony. This was an extra day of prayer and religious observance, according to Mason. Special days of religious thanksgiving were called throughout the colonial period.
Connecticut is given credit for initially adopting an annual day of general thanksgiving. The first for which a proclamation exists was called for Sept. Another on record was held in , and from onward, these special days of general thanksgiving were held annually. Several other states, however, claim the first thanksgiving.
Puritans who arrived to establish Massachusetts Bay Colony in observed a special day of prayer that is often called the "first Thanksgiving. The colony soon was wiped out by the Spanish. Maine, too, stakes a claim to the first Thanksgiving on the basis of a service held by colonists on August 9, , to give thanks for a safe voyage. Virginians are convinced their ancestors celebrated the first Thanksgiving when Jamestown settlers in held a service of thanksgiving for their survival of a harsh winter.
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine had annual thanksgiving observances before the 19th century.
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