Person
Alexander Young
Unitarian minister who in 1841 put a footnote on Winslow’s letter calling it the first Thanksgiving.
Connections 2
influenced
- The story of the First Thanksgiving According to Plimoth Patuxet Museums Scholarship & press 1
- Winslow’s letter of 1621 According to Plimoth Patuxet Museums Scholarship & press 1
Proof 1 source
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Eye-Witness Account of the 1621 Harvest Celebration (You Are The Historian, Unit 4), Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
Scholarship & press
In 1841, Unitarian minister and antiquarian Alexander Young published a compendium of source excerpts about Plymouth Colony
Because the passage describing the event resembled the Thanksgiving feasts popular at his time, he annotated it with a footnote
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