“In fact, my own genealogical research demonstrates that one of the attendees at St. Sauveur certainly was present for the first Thanksgiving at Jamestown, and may well have attended the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth. He’d gone into real estate sales with John Smith. “
Fascinating. What was the name of that First Realtor?
Recall that when Governor Bradford and others were hustling food from the Indian storage huts (the Indians having died of a plague in that area) they encountered a "dead Frenchman".
They never named him. At the same time there were several French Protestants who were with the original group at St. Sauveur, then later in Jamestown ~ having made their way there on their own, or with Samual Argall (recall from the only extant discussions of what went on in Nova Scotia that Argall "dispersed the Protestant ministers" but it does not say that he loaded them on the boat with the French Catholics to return to France.)
These folks show up in Jamestown in different records over the next 10 years.
What you can do is find the various lists of names of the St. Sauveur company, the lists of names of all the inhabitants in Jamestown, and the lists of names of all the colonists to arrive in Plimouth (which I believe includes a bit more than just the Mayflower landing party), figure out the proper pronunciations and spellings, and you'll hit on a common thread.
Virtually any "Virginia Room" at any county library in Virginia will have all those documents available.
It's a good deal of reading, but well worth the adventure.
OF NOTE: Argall came upon a rowboat out in the Bay of Fundy on his way to the French colony. There were three gentlemen on board ~ one named Anthony DeLaGard ~ according to records.
That name has for a long time been taken to mean the fellow was a minor officer in the British Navy.
It's actually the surname of the third ranking nobles in the Swedish Empire ~ they did well when Grandpa DeLaGardie left France for greener grass in Sweden training troops (the Vassa King married one of his daughters to him). A close relative to this fellow designed Fort Christian in Delaware, and another one initiated the establishment of a Swedish presence in America. 1613 is rather early to be out rowing a boat in the Bay of Fundy, but Scanderhoovians are tough. For a variety of reasons these three fellows arrived in Jamestown. Their names got entangled with the Klumph family tradition later on ~ which stripped them of one nationality, gave them another, lost their "titles" and failed to report on what their occupations might have been.