Fellow named Lescarbo wrote a play to entertain his fellows.
That was 1599.
The following year they moved across the Bay of Fundy to what is now Nova Scotia. Eventually several of them (Protestants in fact) ended up in Jamestown ~ just in time to hold another Thanksgiving, and then in Menhoulde (Manhattan) to hold another one. One of their business partners attended the first one in Plymouth Colony.
The Spanish also claim an early Thanksgiving, but they were doing that sort of thing all the time ~ holding big feasts once a week, and really big ones on saint's days, and even bigger ones with full pit barbeque anytime they could find a big enough hole (which is why we don't count theirs, but may explain why we use turkeys instead of bulls).
You're pulling our collective legs.
FRENCH!?!? That doesn't count. The first English speaking Thanksgiving feast was held by the Jamestown Colonists in Berkley Planation in 1619..." On December 4, 1619 settlers stepped ashore at Berkeley Hundred along the James River and, in accordance with the proprietor's instruction that "the day of our ship's arrival ... shall be yearly and perpetually kept as a day of thanksgiving," Since wild turkey was common here then they probably enjoyed a little turkey or duck or goose along with a bounty of oysters, clams and crabs. YUM!
Pedro Menedez de Aviles celebrated a feast of Thanksgiving upon the founding of St Augustine in August of 1565. The meal consisted of garbonzo beans, ships bread, salt pork and wine. They also invited the Salloy tribe that lived in the area.
**but may explain why we use turkeys instead of bulls).**
LOL!
Full barbecue pit - sounds like a pig roast Thanksgiving!