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3 days ago · As far as we know, David Thomson [also Thompson], his wife Amias, and a party of perhaps seven to 10 indentured servants landed their ship Jonathan at what is now Odiorne Point in Rye in April of 1623. The claim is arguably correct. Rye and other surrounding towns were once part of the New Hampshire settlement officially named Portsmouth in 1653.
2 days ago · The original owners, David and Amais Thomson, had arrived under a separate British patent to set up a fishing operation there seven years before. But within three years, they had moved on. David Thomson was presumed dead by 1627.
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4 days ago · Historians generally agree that David Thomson (Thompson) and his wife Amais and 10 hardy fishermen built a small fort and palisade called Pannaway Manor at what is now Odiorne Point in Rye. David Thomson had a charter from NH founders Mason and Gorges to establish a fishing colony.
2 days ago · The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization expeditions in ...
1 day ago · The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown. Roanoke Colony was founded by governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina.
1 day ago · Chairman, Thomson Reuters Corporation. David Thomson and his family control a media and publishing empire founded by his grandfather Roy Thomson. The family's biggest holding: more than 310 ...
3 days ago · The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History. London, Allen Lane, 2018, ISBN: 9781846147753; 720pp.; Price: £30.00. For almost 30 years David Edgerton has produced a series of well-researched and ground-breaking revisionist accounts of this country's recent past, which have exposed the inadequacies and weaknesses of ...
