National Thanksgiving Proclamation as 1607, with the first permanent settlement of Jamestown, Virginia holding a thanksgiving in 1610. In 1619, the Berkeley Hundred colony held a service on December 4, 1619, to celebrate “the day of our ship’s arrival” and proclaimed the date would be “yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to the Almighty God.” The colony was wiped out shortly after, in March 1722, with some inhabitants being massacred, and the rest fleeing. The generally referenced 'First Thanksgiving' occurred on Plymouth Colony, shortly after the colonists first successful harvest in autumn of 1621. They celebrated for three straight
Andrew Anderson (St. Augustine, Florida) Anderson also invited a large number of African-Americans which went against the social customs of the time. He would father two children, Clarissa and Andrew, with his wife; the family moved into a vastly enlarged and remodeled Markland in January 1901. Mrs. Anderson died in Nova Scotia on September 12, 1912, in Chester, Nova Scotia where they owned a vacation home. Anderson died on December 2, 1924, and is buried beside his wife at Evergreen Cemetery in St. Augustine. Andrew Anderson (St. Augustine, Florida) Dr. Andrew Anderson II (March 13, 1839 in St. Augustine, Florida – December 2, 1924 in