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  2. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term English settlement in North America. [1] [2]

  3. British colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Responsible government was first granted to Nova Scotia in 1848, and was soon extended to the other British North American colonies. With the passage of the British North America Act, 1867 by the British Parliament, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were formed into the confederation of Canada. [128]

  4. List of Puritans - Wikipedia

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    Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Morison, Samuel Eliot, Builders of the Bay Colony, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1930 (1981 reprint). Powell, Sumner Chilton, Puritan Village, The Formation of a New England Town, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1963.

  5. List of colonists at Roanoke - Wikipedia

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    Engraving depicting the coast of North Carolina, including Roanoke Island The original colony was established in 1585 as a military outpost under the command of Ralph Lane , and evacuated in 1586. A list of colonists is provided in Richard Hakluyt 's The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, And Discoveries Of The English Nation ...

  6. Old Stock Americans - Wikipedia

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    Old Stock American (also known as Pioneer Stock, Founding Stock or Colonial Stock) is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly Protestants from Northwestern Europe whose ancestors emigrated to British America in the 17th and 18th ...

  7. British Americans - Wikipedia

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    An English presence in North America began with the Roanoke Colony and Colony of Virginia in the late-16th century, but the first successful English settlement was established in 1607, on the James River at Jamestown. By the 1610s, an estimated 1,300 English people had traveled to North America, the "first of many millions from the British ...

  8. English Americans - Wikipedia

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    English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.In the 2020 United States census, English Americans were the largest group in the United States with 46.5 million Americans self-identifying as having some English origins (many combined with another heritage) representing (19.8%) of the White American population.

  9. Category:People of British North America - Wikipedia

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    British Empire portal; North America portal; This category lists colonial leaders, colonizers, land agents, settlers, religious leaders, missionaries, and other kinds of people present in British North America. British North America primarily existed from 1783 until around 1870. However it included a much smaller arra all the way until 1907.