First Linton Thanksgiving

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First Linton Thanksgiving

page established Summer 2012

The Frist Thanksgiving oil painting by Jean Gerome Ferris.

First Linton Thanksgiving

Linton Family Facts and Family Traditional Lore

Brief Historical Sketches

updated November March 20, 2023

This year 2023 is the 404^th Anniversary of the first Thanksgiving. On November 4, 1619, a thanksgiving feast was first held in the Berkely Hundred, Jamestown City Shire in the Virginia Colony. The initial thanksgiving observance in Virginia in 1619 was prompted by the colonists' leaders on the new settlement of the Berkley Hundred a few miles up the James River from Jamestown.

I am proud to say and can source that three of my LINTON ancestors were there in Berkely for it. They were Moses LINTON (1562-1622) & Mary Ann PEAD (1565–?) my tenth great-grandparents, their children, Anthony Linton (1614-1695) and William LINTON (1618-1680) Also Moses’ brother William LINTON (1560-1634).

Moses LINTON (1562-1622) was the 8^th great-grandfather of Annie Lucretia CRONK Linton (1888 - 1956) and the 9th great-grandfather of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987).

The November 21, 1621, Plymouth Massachusetts Colony feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest that year.