Day of Thanksgiving is proclaimed.

(OS 7/8) Gov. John Winthrop declares a day of thanksgiving “in all the plantations” to celebrate the safe arrival of all 11 ships in the fleet. The day is celebrated despite the fact that 98 of those making the trip died en route, many of them from a smallpox outbreak aboard the Talbot, and that Winthrop’s son, Henry, 23, had drowned in Salem six days earlier.