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Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. 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.
The very first Irish settlers - Francisco Maguel and Dionis Oconor - arrived in Jamestown with the First and Second supplies, respectively. [46] Most Irish immigrants to the Americas traveled as indentured servants, with their passage paid for a wealthier person to whom they owed labor for a period of time. Some were merchants and landowners ...
In 1815, Prendergast was nominated for New York State Assembly as a member of the Federalist Party, along with Daniel Chapin of Buffalo. They were defeated by the Republicans, Daniel McCleary and Elias Osborn. On December 13, 1816, the Jamestown Post-Office was established and Prendergast served as first postmaster.
In May 1607, Jamestown was established as the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. It was founded by the London branch of the Virginia Company, which was competing with the Plymouth branch to settle the Colony of Virginia. Jamestown was the capital of the Colony for 92 years, from 1607 until 1699.
1627) in St Endellion, Cornwall, England, was an English gentleman who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard one of the three founding ships, likely the Susan Constant. [1] He is noteworthy as the only original 1607 Jamestown colonist having documented descendants living today.
The First Residents of Jamestowne. National Park Service Historic Jamestowne page. Retrieved July 11, 2020. Muster Search result for William Spencer. Virtual Jamestowne web site. Retrieved August 9, 2020. Woolley, Benjamin. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
Capt. Thomas Graves was a member of the First Legislative Assembly in America, and, with Mr. Walter Shelley, sat for Smythe's Hundred when they met at Jamestown, Virginia on July 30, 1619. [3] His name appears on a monument to the first House of Burgesses which stands at Jamestown today. Smythe's Hundred was abandoned after the Indian uprising ...
The Livingston family of New York is a prominent family that migrated from Scotland to the Dutch Republic, and then to the Province of New York in the 17th century. Descended from the 4th Lord Livingston, [1] its members included signers of the United States Declaration of Independence (Philip Livingston) and the United States Constitution (William Livingston).