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In a recent off-topic thread, I had referred to a piece purported to be
Governor Bradford's proclamation for a day of thanksgiving, from 1623.
Exercising some overdue curiosity (and with it, appropriate skepticism), I
web-searched for keywords, and found the following site questioning its
validity: http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/th-bradp.htm. What
might be of some more general interest is that plimoth.org is the site for
the Plimoth Plantation Museum, where they attempt to assemble primary
sources for this tradition, and discuss what we do and do not know about the
colony and related matters. There are other links from the site given above
that discuss just the thanksgiving tradition.

While we've stopped in Plymouth with family on the way to Cape Cod, we've
never spent the time there that the museum would appear to merit. We do get
to read in local news that there are views to the contrary, and that
material can almost certainly be found on the web elsewhere.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
I feel just a bit like a turkey myself now
I should have checked this out a long time ago.