Early-colonial thanksgiving customs and foods

© 2015 Christy K Robinson

Have you wondered how your early American ancestors celebrated Thanksgiving customs, and what foods they feasted upon? Check out these articles and books for some vivid details! (Click the colored links to read the articles.)  Reading these articles to your Thanksgiving guests could be a fun activity during the "other" 12-15 hours you're not sitting in front of the traditional feast.

How the English colonists celebrated thanksgiving in Massachusetts Bay Colony 

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Thanksgiving in New England--no parties or football 

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Shine on, harvest moon
http://bit.ly/2TsQPsL 

The weed our ancestors ate in tough times
http://bit.ly/2A9r4Vt

Heart-stopping meals of colonial New England: Recipes you can try
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How rodents carried out the will of God: the mouse that ate the Book of Common Prayer
http://bit.ly/2fVikdA

How To Make 17th-Century Delights: Whipp'd Syllabub (a frothy cocktail)
http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/17th-century-delights-whippd-syllabub

Shedding Light on the First Thanksgiving at Plimoth Plantation
http://bit.ly/2Bl0Jps

The true story behind Thanksgiving is a bloody struggle that decimated the population and ended with a head on a stick

http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-thanksgiving-2017-11

The late Carolina Capehart was a historic culinarian. Read her Thanksgiving articles here:
 https://firesidefeasts.wordpress.com/?s=Thanksgiving 
 

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For a first-hand description of thanksgiving days held in Boston and Salem in the 1630s and 1640s, read it in Mary Dyer Illuminated, by Christy K Robinson. It's Volume I of the two-part story of William and Mary Dyer. The Dyers series, which has won almost unanimous five-star reviews, is available in paperback and Kindle at online booksellers like Amazon.  

Be sure to order the series for yourself, and as gifts for friends and family members. 

Christy K Robinson is author of these books:

We Shall Be Changed (2010)

Mary Dyer Illuminated Vol. 1 (2013)  

Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This Vol. 2 (2014)

The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport Vol. 3 (2014)  

Effigy Hunter (2015)  

Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother (2018)

And of these sites:  

Discovering Love  (inspiration and service)

Rooting for Ancestors  (history and genealogy)

William and Mary Barrett Dyer (17th century culture and history of England and New England)

Editornado [ed•i•tohr•NAY•doh] (Words. Communications. Book reviews. Cartoons.)

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