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On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term English settlement in North America. [1] [2]
Oliver Seymour Phelps and his son-in-law, Andrew T. Servin, published The Phelps Family in America in 1899. They mistakenly concluded that William Phelps was the brother of George Phelps, who apparently arrived in Windsor, Connecticut in 1635 aboard the Recovery of London, and that both emigrated from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [1]
Tristram Coffin (or Coffyn) [fn 1] (c. 1609 – 2 October 1681) was an immigrant to Massachusetts from England.He came to the Massachusetts colony with his family in 1642. In 1659 he led a group of investors that bought Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. [2]
These elite families generally married within their social class for many generations and, as a result, most surnames of First Families date to the colonial period. The American Revolution cut ties with Britain but not with its social traditions. While some First Family members were loyal to Britain, others were Whigs who supported and often ...
[4] [12] [13] [14] He and his family left for America on April 10, 1634 [15] [16] in search of religious liberty from Ipswich aboard the Francis, commanded by John Cutting. [17] [4] Coe settled for a brief time in Watertown, a Boston suburb in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with several other Puritan families from Boxford who arrived with John ...
The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia , and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies .
Various figures in American folklore and literature typify the pioneer. The Deerslayer was the most successful of an early series, the Leatherstocking Tales , about pioneer life in New York. Little House on the Prairie , a century later, typified a later series of novels describing a pioneer family.
James Avery, also known with his honorary title as Captain James Avery (1620 – April 18, 1700), was a Cornish-American landowner, legislator, and a military captain in King Philip's War. He is commonly known to be the founder of a clan or family, commonly known as the "Groton Avery's".