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Anne Burras (later, Anne Laydon) was an early English settler in Virginia and an ancient planter.She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her daughter Virginia Laydon was the first child of English colonists to be born in the Jamestown, Virginia, colony. [4]
[3]: 40–41, 196–197 In contrast, James Horn observed that White produced no known artwork of the people and towns discovered after August 1585, suggesting he was no longer present in the colony. As for the map, Horn argued that White, who was not a surveyor, would have based his illustration on someone else's survey data, making it no less ...
John Asbie: 1607–08–06 First death of the colony (dysentery) [10] Robert Beheathland: Captain and Gentleman Behethland, R. 1627 Benjamin Best: Gentleman Beast, B. 1607–09–05 Edward Brinto: Mason and Soldier Brinton, E. Edward Brookes: Gentleman 1607–04–07 Died in the West Indies (before arriving to Virginia) John Brookes: Gentleman ...
Paul Cuffe, also known as Paul Cuffee (January 17, 1759 – September 7, 1817) was an African American and Wampanoag businessman, whaler and abolitionist.Born free into a multiracial family on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, Cuffe became a successful merchant and sea captain.
The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown. Roanoke Colony was founded by the governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. [1]
John Sweet and wife Mary (received grant of land in 1637, was at Sweet's Cove, Salem; their lot became Court Street; their son John Sweet was a settler of Warwick Colony) [17] William Harris; William Carpenter; Thomas Olney (left Salem about March 1638) [18] Francis Weston (left Salem about March 1638) [19] Richard Waterman (left Salem about ...
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Catholic-Protestant religious tensions were high but mellowed after 1860. The British colony voted against joining Canada in 1869 and became an independent dominion in 1907. After the economy collapsed in the 1930s, responsible government was suspended in 1934, and Newfoundland was governed through the Commission of Government.