Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Jan in Arizona " the words to the invitation for the very first Thanksgiving dinner 375 years ago. It still hold true 375 years later for the generations of the 1900s. TO ALL YE PILGRIMS Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease , and has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience; now, I your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims , with your wives and little ones, do gather at the meeting house on the hill between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday November the 29th of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty three, and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on the Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to your Pastor, and render thanksgiving to our almighty God for all His blessings. William Bradford Governor of Plymouth Colony, 1623