....ummmm.... the first “giving of thanks” took place in the Virginia Colony in 1619 I believe....
...”In 1619, a group of settlers who had arrived in the New World and ventured down to a settlement in what is now Virginia held an official Thanksgiving celebration, two years before the better-known meal took place in Massachusetts.
According to Berkeley Plantation historian H. Graham Woodlief, the first Thanksgiving was more about thanking God than eating. It took place at an area called Berkeley Hundred, Va., which would later be home to the Berkeley Plantation and a Georgian mansion built in 1726.....”
Interesting. Looks like Berkeley Plantation has a rich history. Visited Shirley Plantation down the road several years ago