Samoset and Squanto P7

When the Pilgrims unexpectedly arrived the following year after Squanto arrived back home in New England, Squanto saw how woefully unprepared the Pilgrims were and knew he could help these English newcomers. Everything he had experienced - all the tragedies that had beset him - had prepared him for that very moment. By the Providence of God, Squanto now had a unique purpose for life: he would see that the Pilgrims survived at the place where his tribe had not.

With Squanto’s help, the Pilgrims harvested sufficient food for their upcoming second winter.  They had no surplus, but the things definitely looked much better than they had the preceding year when half of the colonists had died. Governor William Bradford therefore appointed a Day of Thanksgiving, for they had much for which to be grateful. They now had a place where they could freely worship God, they had survived their first year in the wilderness of New England and with Squanto’s help they had reaped a good harvest.

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