{"id":21082,"date":"2013-11-30T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21082"},"modified":"2013-11-30T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:32:02","slug":"americas-early-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21082","title":{"rendered":"America’s Early Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Americans<\/a> celebrated Thanksgiving. Other than declaring the beginning of the Christmas shopping season<\/a> and watching football, the purpose of the holiday was to give thanks for the blessings we have received in the past year. The pilgrims were grateful to be alive when they celebrated their first Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

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Whitaker (left, in white vestments) as portrayed in The Baptism of Pocahontas, 1840, by John Gadsby Chapman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Now there is an archeological find in Jamestown, Virginia<\/a>, that illustrates the Christian roots of America. CBN News<\/a> posted a story today about the discovery of the original 1608 church building<\/a> that was built at James Fort.This is the church where Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan<\/a>, married John Rolfe<\/a>, the Virginia colony<\/a>‘s first successful tobacco planter.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Jamestown archaeologist Bill Kelso<\/a> said he’s now 100 percent sure he and his team have discovered the first substantial Protestant church<\/a> in America — the 1608 church.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He described the find as a “goose bump” moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This fort was supposed to have been lost to the river, to erosion,” Kelso told CBN News. “No one could find it. I came out here 18 years ago, and I thought, ‘Well, I want to give this a shot in this area because nobody looked that seriously here,'”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“And sure enough the whole fort’s been found — all the buildings, now the church,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The secretary of the Jamestown colony had recorded the church dimensions as 60-feet long by 24-feet wide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The church was later replaced by another church which probably stood where a brick church currently stands to greet visitors today.<\/p>\n

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