# *What you learned about the ‘first Thanksgiving’ isn’t true. Here’s the real story Eryn Dion, USA TODAY NETWORK

# *What you learned about the ‘first Thanksgiving’ isn’t true. Here’s the real story Eryn Dion, USA TODAY NETWORK The traditional story of Thanksgiving, as most Americans have been taught, doesn't start in 1620 with the Pilgrims arriving in Plymouth Rock. The holiday wasn't even called the first Thanksgiving until the 1830s, and it wasn't made official until President Abraham Lincoln declared it as such in 1863 HOWEVER JOHN BOWNE OFLUSHING, QUEENS, N.Y. (NEW AMSTERDAM) DID GO TO HOLLAND & THEN ENGLAND TO GAIN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR ALL INCLUDING THE AMERICAN INDIANS. I WAS BROUGHT UP IN FLUSHING ON HIS OLD PROPERTY. HIS HOUSE STILL STANDS & HAS A POTENT ENERGY GJ ..the Bowne House was built ca. 1661 by John Bowne, who emigrated from England to Boston in 1649 and settled in Flushing, Queens, when New York was under Dutch rule. His family prospered in America: the nine generations born and raised in the house produced businessmen, horticulturists, educators and politicians.* # *The Bowne House: A Story of Religious Freedom* 

# *Located in Flushing, Queens, the house is considered the birthplace of American religious action.*