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Based on the life of Nat Turner, a former slave in America, who leads a liberation movement to free African Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites. [15] Bitter Springs: 1950 An Australian pioneer family in the Australian outback in 1900 has problems with local Aboriginal people arise over the possession of a ...
Robert Seeley, also Seely, Seelye, or Ciely, (1602–1668) was an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who helped establish Watertown, Wethersfield, and New Haven. He also served as second-in-command to John Mason in the Pequot War .
Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer Days in America is a 1907 American silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. [1] It starred Florence Lawrence , often called "the first movie star."
Year Title Director Genre Themes 1936 A Message to Garcia: George Marshall: Historical drama: Spanish-American War: 1939 The Four Feathers: Zoltan Korda
He assumed leadership of the new settlers, who gave him the title of "Colonel". [1] After taking advice from the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Nisqually, the new American settlers founded New Market (later Tumwater). [3] Despite its help, three years later Simmons led a campaign of complaints against the "monarchist" Hudson's Bay ...
Andrew Petrie and his family, the first free-settlers to move to the area, travelled to Dunwich aboard the James Watt and were then transferred in a pilot boat, manned by convicts that landed at King's Jetty, the only landing place that then existed, now known as North Quay. [4]
James Harrod (c. 1746 – c. 1792) was a pioneer, soldier, and hunter who helped explore and settle the area west of the Allegheny Mountains.Little is known about Harrod's early life, including the exact date of his birth.
Bakewell, Lois Andis (1992). Andis-Moe Ancestors in America 1741–1990.Laurens, IA: The Compiler. Best, Jane Evans (October 1998). "Bear Saga Update:Part Two".