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Death date (YYYY-MM-DD) [note 1] Notes Henry Adling: Gentleman Adding, H. Jerome Alicock: Gentleman Alikok Ancient, Jeremy 1607–08–04 Slain by natives [10] Gabriel Archer: Captain and Gentleman Archer, Gabriell 1609 or 1610 winter Secretary to the Council (lawyer) [11] John Asbie: 1607–08–06 First death of the colony (dysentery) [10 ...
In 1892, Peters, then "head of the oldest branch of a famous colonial family", [5] was included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. [8] [7] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.
[4] [12] [13] [14] He and his family left for America on April 10, 1634 [15] [16] in search of religious liberty from Ipswich aboard the Francis, commanded by John Cutting. [17] [4] Coe settled for a brief time in Watertown, a Boston suburb in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with several other Puritan families from Boxford who arrived with John ...
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The eldest son of Col. Thomas Blackburn and his wife Christian Scott was born to the patriotic gentry of Prince William County, Virginia.He was likely born between 1762 and 1764, since he is listed on the Prince William County tax rolls as under 21 years old in 1781 and had an individual listing in 1787.
The family purchased 12 acres of land, and in 1641, master carpenters began constructing their home. [2] Jonathan Fairbanks signed the Covenant when the town was founded and named. He served a single term as selectman in 1658.
He was a judge, a colonel in the colonial militia, and sided with the revolutionary cause against his cousin. Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820), a grandson of Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth through his son Mark, nephew of Benning Wentworth, and loyalist colonial Governor of New Hampshire during the American Revolution.
The Livingston family of New York is a prominent family that migrated from Scotland to the Dutch Republic, and then to the Province of New York in the 17th century. Descended from the 4th Lord Livingston, [1] its members included signers of the United States Declaration of Independence (Philip Livingston) and the United States Constitution (William Livingston).