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Jane Dickenson and her husband came to Virginia as indentured servants in 1620. She was sent to a plantation along the James River. During the Native American uprising, she was captured and held captive for close to a year. A doctor by the name of Dr. John Pott saved her with a ransom.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American colonial people. It includes American colonial people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Popular names of the period 1880s This page was last edited on 5 February 2025, at 17:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Native American women. Before, and during the colonial period (While the colonial period is generally defined by historians as 1492–1763, in the context of settler colonialism, as scholar Patrick Wolfe says, colonialism is ongoing) [1] of North America, Native American women had a role in society that contrasted with that of the settlers.
The organization was founded in 1890, shortly before the founding of two similar societies, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution. In April 1890, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer (Maria Denning Van Rensselaer), Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, and Mrs. Archibald Gracie King decided to found a ...
Experts predict sweet, cute and short names for baby girls in 2025 to be popular, along with some "dad names" and names inspired by nature. Experts predict sweet, cute and short names for baby ...
Say "bonjour" to French names for girls beyond classics like "Marie," "Charlotte" and "Louise.". American parents fell in love with French girl names in the 1960s, according to Laura Wattenberg ...
Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...