Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In this early period, free blacks enjoyed "relative equality" with the white community. About 20% of free black Virginians owned their own homes. In 1662, the Virginia Colony passed a law that children in the colony were born with the social status of their mother, according to the Roman principle of partus sequitur ventrem. This meant that the ...
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.
Her father, John Harvey, was born in Cornwall in 1771 to John (1736–1778) and Margaret Ann Harvey (née Parker) (1736–1790). He was involved in merchant shipping and privateering , earning a great amount of wealth over the years, and married Elizabeth Harvey ( née Guille) when they were both 19.
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.
John Strong (1610–1699) was an English-born New England colonist, politician, Puritan church leader, tanner, and one of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut, and Northampton, Massachusetts, as well as the progenitor of nearly all the Strong families in what is now the United States. He was referred to as Elder John Strong because he was an ...
William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [4] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [5] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2]