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  2. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    Carroll H. Brown, E.D. Elliot: Los Angeles: Today, part of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet convent complex Lewis Leonard Bradbury House 1887 Queen Anne: Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom: Los Angeles: Demolished in 1929 Margaret E. Crocker Mansion 1886 Queen Anne: John Hall Los Angeles: Demolished in 1908 Rose Mansion 1888 Queen ...

  3. List of slave owners - Wikipedia

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    Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (1701–1771), the first person born in Canada to be declared a saint and "one of Montreal's more prominent slaveholders". [ 330 ] David Levy Yulee (1810–1886), American politician and attorney, he forced enslaved people to work his Florida sugarcane plantation and later to build a railroad.

  4. Virginia Laydon - Wikipedia

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    Laydon's mother Anne Burras was one of the first two women to arrive in Jamestown, along with Mistress Forrest who employed Anne as a maidservant. [2] In 1608, shortly after arriving at Jamestown, Anne married carpenter John Laydon. He had arrived in 1607 aboard the Susan Constant. [3] Virginia was born in October 1609 and baptized in Jamestown ...

  5. John D. Williams - Wikipedia

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    John D. Williams may refer to: John David Williams or John David (born 1946), Welsh bassist and songwriter John Davis Williams (1902–1983), American academic administrator

  6. William Hutchinson (Rhode Island judge) - Wikipedia

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    He was the grandson of John Hutchinson (1515–1565) who had been Sheriff, Alderman, and Mayor of the town of Lincoln, dying in office during his second term as mayor. [1] John's youngest son Edward (1564–1632) moved to Alford and had 11 children with his wife Susanna, the oldest of whom was William, who was baptized August 14, 1586 in Alford.

  7. Beaubassin - Wikipedia

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    There is a stone marker near the Nova Scotia visitor centre off the Trans-Canada Highway in Amherst, Nova Scotia commemorating the village's existence. The pastured fields of the former Beaubassin village contain extensive archaeological resources including glass and ceramic artifacts and charred buildings that attest to the Acadian way of life.

  8. Acadia - Wikipedia

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    Siege of Saint John (1645) – d'Aulnay defeats La Tour in Acadia From 1640 to 1645, Acadia was plunged into what some historians have described as a civil war. [ citation needed ] The war was between Port Royal, where the Governor of Acadia Charles de Menou d'Aulnay de Charnisay was stationed, and present-day Saint John, New Brunswick , where ...

  9. William Dyer (settler) - Wikipedia

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    William Dyer was baptized at Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincolnshire, England, on 19 September 1609, the son of William Dyer. [1] In 1625, while a teenager, he was apprenticed to Walter Blackborne, a fishmonger, and 16 years later, while he was in New England, he was taxed back in England as a member of the "Fishmonger's Company," though his profession before leaving there was that of a milliner. [1]