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From the Governor's Desk - 8/26/2019

To our loyal members and cousins, With summer waning new events and activities lie ahead. Mark your calendars for our Thanksgiving service in Old City Philly on November 24th. We will enjoy a beautiful service, dinner and donate funds to grateful church. There will be a float in the Rose Bowl parad...

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From the Governor's Desk - 7/5/2019

To our loyal members, Our updated website is now operational and paying dividends in communication and time saving. Did you know about 2/3 of our members have verified email addresses? Thanks to all that have paid your dues timely! If you have missed our invoice, please contact us. If you have pro...

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Marriage Pilgrim Style

By Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. The 1627 Plimoth Plantation presented a recreation of a Pilgrim wedding ceremony on August 14, 2010. They chose to go back to the year 1623 when Governor William Bradford, whose wife Dorothy May had drowned shortly after the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620, married Eliza...

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After the First Thanksgiving

By Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth By Jennie A. Brownscombe (1850-1936) Ask "the man (or woman) on the street" what he (or she) knows about the Pilgrims, and you will probably be told that they (1) celebrated the First Thanksgiving with the Indians, (2) came to Ameri...

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The Good Ship Mayflower

Very little is known about the ship which brought the Pilgrims to New England. No name is given in Bradford's History Of Plimoth Plantation, nor in the other early accounts. The first mention occurred in a document of 1623, which assigned to the individual colonists an acre of land apiece. The list ...

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