Most of us know that Pilgrims held the first Thanksgiving to celebrate miraculously surviving their first harsh winter in America. But another part of history is fairly unknown: an even more impressive miracle saved the Pilgrims and nearby Indian tribes just two years later.
That first winter of 1621 had really been a killer, wiping out 51 of the original 102 settlers in the Plymouth colony. But then their first crop thrived. In fact, they found they could grow five times as much on a plot of land here as on the same size plot back in England.
Pilgrim re-enactor Leo Martin told CBN News, “They thought that they ought to thank God for that. So they had a Thanksgiving.”
Things were going very well, but then 1623 brought a drought that threatened to wipe out all the crops of the Plymouth plantation and nearby Indian tribes….
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED: https://cbn.com/news/us/little-known-miracle-saved-pilgrims
