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Virginia: From Popham Colony Robert Davis [59] Shipmaster Davies, R. Virginia: Likely brother to James Davis Rachell Davis: Wife of James Davis Virginia: Edward Chart: Sea Venture: Bermudas Eason ️ baby boy [60] Easton, Bermudas [61]-- Born on Bermuda islands, died c. 1610 either on the islands or arriving at Jamestown [61] Edward Eason ...
Anthony the Wanderer (Russian: Странник Антоний; real name Anthony (Anton) Isaevich Petrov; c. 1834 — after 1911) was a Russian wanderer, widely known in Russia during the reigns of Emperors Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II. Some contemporaries, and on the basis of their testimonies, later Soviet and Russian ...
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
Some prominent Russian-American men with Russian boy names include writer Vladimir Nabokov, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin. 100 Russian Boy Names
Bearing no suffix, it is produced suppletively and always has the declension noun ending for both males and females, thus making short forms of certain unisex names indistinguishable: for example, Sasha (Russian: Саша) is the short name for both the masculine name Aleksandr (Alexander) and the feminine form Aleksandra (Alexandra).
This John was the son of Robert Alexander II (1688–1735). On May 2, 1749, the House of Burgesses approved the river location and ordered "Mr. Washington do go up with a Message to the Council and acquaint them that this House have agreed to the Amendments titled An Act for erecting a Town at Hunting Creek Warehouse, in the County of Fairfax."
The first English attempt to colonize Virginia was the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke. Unsuccessful settlements were established under two different governors, and the final fate of the colonists remains unknown. Sir Walter Raleigh, Governor of Virginia (1585–1590, absentee) Sir Ralph Lane, Governor of Roanoke (Virginia) (1585–1586)
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.