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This article briefly discusses the days of “thanksgiving” celebrated in Virginia in the early seventeenth century, predating the more famous Plymouth Colony celebration which we commemorate nowadays.
Many people think the first Thanksgiving happened in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1621 to celebrate a successful harvest. But Williamsburg historian Taylor Stoermer says settler communities in what was then called the New World often had celebrations to give thanks. Records show that Spanish conquistadors had religious Thanksgiving services at San Elizario, Texas, in 1598.
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