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4 days ago · The first permanent settlement in North America was the English colony at Jamestown, in 1607, in what is now Virginia. John Smith and company had come to stay. The Pilgrims followed, in 1620, and set up a colony at Plymouth, in what is now Massachusetts.
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4 days ago · Still, the Plymouth Colony, by itself, wrought no nobler or better work for mankind than the unnoticed, almost unnamed colonists who founded New Hampshire. Massachusetts Bay settlers, the Puritans, eclipsed the humbler efforts of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
3 days ago · On May 14, 1607, English settlers arriving under the authority of the Virginia Company of London chartered by King James I established the first permanent English settlement in North America at a place they named Jamestown, Virginia. 1 “We landed all our men,” George Percy wrote in his account of the event, “which were set to worke about [i.e., on] the fortification, and others some to ...
2 days ago · Founded as a colony of the Greek city of Corinth Istanbul (as Byzantion) Thrace, Anatolia Turkey: 685 BC Anatolia; 660 BC Thrace: Founded as a colony of Megara; Neolithic site dated to 6400 BC, over port of Lygos by Thracians c. 1150 BC. Syracuse: Sicily Italy: ca. 680-675 BC (traditionally 734 BC) A colony of the Greek city of Corinth.
3 days ago · Pilgrim Code of Law. State Government. November 15, 1636. Study Questions. No study questions. Whereas, at his Majesty’s court held the fourth and fifth of October in the twelfth year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., it was ordered ...
3 days ago · What we now know as New York City was first settled 400 years ago in 1624. What began as New Amsterdam was renamed New York City in the late 1660s and is currently the 12th-oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental U.S. As of 2024, the city's importance and appeal is undeniable.
2 days ago · Wampanoag Homesite Wetu – HistoryView. 1,373 Views. Created by: Aerial Optics. Plimoth Plantation, founded in 1947, is a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA that attempts to replicate the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by English colonists who later became known as the Pilgrims.
