Alexander Young was an American historian and Unitarian minister. He is most notable for publishing Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, in which he is the first to label the 1621 harvest feast between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims as the "first Thanksgiving."[1]
Alexander Young | |
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| Born | September 22, 1800 |
| Died | March 16, 1854 (aged 53) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Education | Harvard University (Grad. 1820; D.D. 1846) |