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Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a man from Angola who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia.Held as an "indentured servant" in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony.
Salome Sellers – (1800–1909) last surviving person from the 18th century; Nabi Tajima (1900–2018), the last known surviving person born in the 19th century. Colm de Bhailís (1796–1906), Irish poet who also lived from the 18th to 20th centuries. Gallery of supercentenarians born before 1850 Gerontology Research Group (GRG), published 5 ...
Robert Titus (c. 1600 – 1672) was the first Titus immigrant from England to America and is the progenitor of many of the Tituses in America today. [1] After living 19 years in Brookline, Weymouth and Rehoboth, Titus was warned out of Massachusetts in 1654; and moved to Long Island.
Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage, 2012) Warren M. Billings (Editor), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005)
William Tucker was born in Cornwall on January 7, 1588 or in 1589. [6] In 1610, he sailed on the ship Mary and Thomas (sometimes written as Mary and James) to Virginia. [7] [8] Tucker was married to Mary Thompson, who was born in 1599. [7] Her father was Robert Thompson of Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire and her nephew was John Thompson, 1st ...
John Mason (October 1600 – January 30, 1672) was an English-born settler, soldier, commander and Deputy Governor of the Connecticut Colony.Mason was best known for leading a group of Puritan settlers and Indian allies on a combined attack on a Pequot Fort in an event known as the Mystic Massacre.
Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony due to their theological expansion of the Puritan concept of a church of individuals regenerated by the Holy Spirit to the idea of the indwelling of the Spirit ...
Little is known of Endecott's origins. 19th century biographers believed he hailed from Dorchester, Dorset, due to his significant later association with people from that area. [3] In the early 20th century, historian Roper Lethbridge proposed that Endecott was born circa 1588 in or near Chagford in Devon . [ 4 ]