The Famous Thanksgiving and A Drought P4

Squanto had taught the Pilgrims how to live with the land rather than against it, and his Pilgrim students learned their lessons well. But after two years under his tutelage, much to their sorrow their friend and mentor became mortally ill. As Squanto was passing from this world to the next, Governor Bradford reported he “desired him to pray for him - that he might go to the Englishmen’s God in Heaven. He bequeathed sundry of his things to sundry of his English friends as remembrances of his love, of whom they had a great loss.”

Without Squanto, the story of the Pilgrims might have been quite different, ending in tragedy rather than success. Bradford openly acknowledged that Squanto “was a special instrument sent of God for our good.”

Content sourced from The American Story, The Beginnings.  By: David Barton and Tim Barton