First Thanksgiving: How Native Americans, Pilgrims started it all

The Mayflower Voyage took 65 days, landing at Cape Cod in November before reaching their permanent settlement in December. Out of 102 passengers, 51 survived the first winter. Elizabeth Hopkins, Eleanor Billington, Susanna White Winslow, and Mary Brewster were the only four married women to survive. In the Fall of 1621 it is believed that these four women, along with the older girls, oversaw food preparation for the three-day harvest feast for the colonists and members of the Wampanoag Tribe. Th