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title: 'Margaret J. Preston on The First Thanksgiving'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2022-11-23
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2022-margaret-j-preston-on-the-first-thanksgiving
---

# Margaret J. Preston on The First Thanksgiving

“And therefore, I, William Bradford, (by the grace of God to-day,
And the franchise of this good people,) Governor of Plymouth, say.
Through virtue of vested power—ye shall gather with one accord.
And hold, in the month November, thanksgiving unto the Lord.” — [Margaret J. Preston](/authors/margaret-junkin-preston), “The First Thanksgiving” in *Colonial Ballads, Sonnets and Other Verse* (1887), p. 48