Thirty-eight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony" id="mwPg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Colony">colonists</a> arrive at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Hundred" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Berkeley Hundred">Berkeley Hundred</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Colony of Virginia">Virginia</a>. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."