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Captain, sergeant-major Lion: Thomas Whittingham ️ Cape merchant (treasurer) [78] Sea Venture → pinnace (ship's boat) Lost at sea (or killed by Native Americans) after sailing a pinnace (with Henry Ravens) for help after marooning on Bermuda, 1609 [78] Thomas Wood [79] Captain Unitie: George Yeardley: Captain of the guard for Thomas Gates ...
Perth Assembly was a controversial book published by the Pilgrims in Leiden in 1619. In the same year, before they departed on the Mayflower for Massachusetts; the book was smuggled into Scotland in wine vats. [1] The book was critical of the Five Articles of Perth, a church statute which had been ratified by the General Assembly in Perth in 1618.
The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
Liddell was born in 1578. [1] He was the son of Thomas Liddell (d. 1619) by the same's wife Margaret Watson, who was daughter of John Watson Alderman of Newcastle. [2] His paternal grandfather Thomas Liddell of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (d. 1577) was a merchant adventurer who had served as Sheriff of Newcastle in 1563-64 and as Mayor of Newcastle in 1572–3.
Local court records revealed, that he was the brother of Andrew Stone and Captain John Stone, who had been trading, on the Eastern Shore, since 1626. By 1634, William Stone had become a commissioner of the county court. Sometime, prior to February 1636, he married Verlinda Graves, the daughter of Captain Thomas Graves. William went on to become ...
In 2021, a book anthology of essays and poetry The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story was published, as well as a children's picture book The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson. In January 2023, Hulu premiered a six-part documentary TV series created by Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine. [20]
Thomas Todd (January 23, 1765 – February 7, 1826) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia , he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky , where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice.
William Farrar was born before April 28, 1583, [2] the date of his christening, in Croxton, Lincolnshire, England. [3] He was the 3rd son of John Farrar of Croxton [1] and London, Esquire, a wealthy merchant and landowner with various holdings in West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire, [4] and Cecily Kelke, an heiress [5] and direct descendant of Edward III of England. [6]