 Seventeenth-century accounts do not identify this as a Thanksgiving observance, rather it followed the harvest.It included 50 people who were on the Mayflower (all who remained of the 100 who had landed) and 90 Native Americans.The feast was cooked by the four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World (Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna White), along with young daughters and male and female servants.