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The settlers suffered terrible hardships in its early years, including sickness, starvation, and native attacks. By early 1610, most of the settlers had died due to starvation and disease. [3] With resupply and additional immigrants, it managed to endure, becoming America's first permanent English colony. [4]
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]
(d 1655) early settler, secretary, provincial justice [47] [48] Thomas Hatton (1642 – 1675) early settler [49] Howard. Baltimore County, Howard County. Matthew Howard Sr: early settler John Eager Howard (1752 – 1827) soldier, plantation owner and politician, Howard County is named after him [50] George Howard (Governor of Maryland)
John White [a]; Roger Baily; Ananias Dare; Christopher Cooper; Thomas Stevens; John Sampson; Dyonis Harvie; Roger Prat; George How [b]; Simon Fernandes [a]; Nicholas Johnson
In early 1611, he was pilot of a 300-ton ship on his first New World voyage, with a three-ship convoy sailing from London to the new settlement of Jamestown in Virginia. Two other ships were in that convoy, and the three ships brought 300 new settlers to Jamestown, going first to the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Nevis. While in Jamestown ...
Thomas Cornell (settler) Joseph Jenckes Jr., early settler of Pawtucket, Warwick, and Providence; Stephen Northup, built house that remains as one of oldest in the state; John Steere, early settler of Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island; Pardon Tillinghast, early pastor of the First Baptist Church in America; John Whipple, early settler of ...
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.
M. Joseph Martin (general) Maryland Ridge Community (Indiana) George Mathews (soldier) John Mathews (American pioneer) William Mayfield; Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt
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