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May 1, 2024 · In 1656 Quaker women preachers began work in Maryland and in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The magistrates of Boston savagely persecuted the visitors and in 1659 and 1661 put four of them to death. Despite this, Quakerism took root in Massachusetts and flourished in Rhode Island, where Friends for a long time were in the majority.
Apr 20, 2024 · Jamestown Colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Financed and organized by the Virginia Company, the colony was originally a private venture that had been granted a royal charter by King James I. In 1624 it became a royal colony.
May 1, 2024 · Rhodesia, c. 1902. Map of Central Africa, showing most of Rhodesia (part of which is now Zimbabwe) from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published in 1902. (more) By 1892 about 1,500 settlers from the south had arrived in Rhodesia. The railway reached Bulawayo in 1896 and Victoria Falls in 1904.
May 3, 2024 · Ninety “younge, handsome and honestly educated maydes” were shipped to the colony in 1620. In 1621, the Virginia Company sent fifty-seven marriageable women between the ages of fifteen and twenty-eight. A wife procured in this manner cost 120 pounds of tobacco per head—six times the cost of a male indentured servant.
Apr 19, 2024 · Cliffs, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Colonial America Place of Burial: Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States: Immediate Family: Husband of Lucy Pope Father of Thomas Pope, Sr.; Nathaniel Pope, II; Anne Washington and Margaret Hardidge / Patten. Occupation: Maryland General Assembly member 1648: Managed by:
2 days ago · To support the colony, numerous supply missions were organized. Tobacco later became a cash crop, with the work of John Rolfe and others, for export and the sustaining economic driver of Virginia and the neighboring colony of Maryland. Plantation agriculture was a primary aspect of the economies of the Southern Colonies and in the British West ...
1 day ago · Dare County, North Carolina, US. The establishment of the Roanoke Colony ( / ˈroʊənoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America. The colony was founded in 1585, but it was visited by a ship in 1590 and the crew found that the colonists had disappeared under unknown ...
