Virginia Charter of Berkeley Hundred (December 4, 1619) Charter for 38 colonists who landed at a place they called Berkeley Hundred:
<We ordain that the day of our ship's arrival...in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept Holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God.> 1619VA003
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Endnotes:
1619VA003. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia Charter, December 4, 1619, of the colonists who landed at Berkeley Hundred. Jim Dwyer, ed., "Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past" (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1989), p. 189. Gary DeMar, America's Christian History: The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Publishers, Inc., 1993), p. 16.