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Thursday, November 24th

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  The annual Thanksgiving holiday tradition in the United States is documented at its earliest in 1619, in what is now called the Commonwealth of  Virginia . Thirty-eight English settlers aboard the ship  Margaret  arrived by way of the James River at  Berkeley Hundred  in  Charles City County, Virginia  on December 4, 1619. The landing was immediately followed by a religious celebration, specifically dictated by the group's charter from the  London Company . The charter declared, "that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." Since the mid 20th century, the original celebration has been commemorated there annually at present-day  Berkeley Plantation , ancestral home of the  Harrison family of Virginia . The more familiar Thanksgiving precedent is traced to the  Pilgrims  and  Puri...