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The counts are for total population, including persons who were enslaved, but generally excluding Native Americans. According to the Census Bureau, these figures likely undercount enslaved people. [2] Shaded blocks indicate periods before the colony was established or chartered, as well as times when it was part of another colony.
1656 – Elizabeth Key Grinstead was one of the first black people to sue for freedom for alleged slavery and win. 1656 – First Quakers arrive in New England. 1655 – Peach War; 1658 – Death of Oliver Cromwell; 1659–1663 – Esopus Wars
before 1609 Thomas Jacob: Sergeant (soldier) [10] Jacon, T. 1607–09–04 [10] William Johnson: Labourer George Kendall: Councillor and Captain: 1607–12–01 Execution by firing squad for "mutiny" [15] Ellis Kingston: Gentleman E. Kiniston or Kinnistone 1607–09–18 "Starved to death with cold" [16] John Laydon: Carpenter and Labourer Leyden
Emigration to the New England colonies after 1640 and the start of the English Civil War decreased to less than 1% (about equal to the death rate) in nearly all years before 1845. The rapid growth of the New England colonies (total population ≈700,000 by 1790) was almost entirely due to the high birth rate (>3%) and low death rate (<1%) per year.
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 million, though many scholars gravitated toward an estimate of around 50 million by the end of the 20th century.
Nicarao people, 700-1622 AD, Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Nicoya Kingdom, 500 BC-1600 AD, Costa Rica; Olmec, 1500–400 BC, Veracruz and Tabasco; Pipil people, c. 1200-1528 AD, El Salvador; Purépecha Empire or Tarascan state, 1300–1530 AD, Michoacán; Teotihuacán, 200 BC–800 AD, near Mexico City; Teuchitlan tradition, 300 BC – 500 AD, north ...
Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]
The Lieutenant-Governor and settlers who arrived in 1612 briefly settled on Smith's Island, where the three left behind by the Sea Venture were thriving, before moving to St. George's Island where they established the town of New London, which was soon renamed to St. George's Town (the first actual town successfully established by the English ...