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Quotation from Mourt's Relation by William Bradford and Edward Winslow
“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors.”
Mourt's Relation, Letter of 11 December 1621 (Young 1841 typography, harvest letter collated)
Winslow tells English friends how the company marked the harvest with a special time of rejoicing after the crop was in.
Citation: "Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors." — William Bradford and Edward Winslow, Mourt's Relation, Letter of 11 December 1621 (Young 1841 typography, harvest letter collated). (id mourts-relation-q1)
