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Old Stock American (also known as Pioneer Stock, Founding Stock or Colonial Stock) is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly Protestants from Northwestern Europe whose ancestors emigrated to British America in the 17th and 18th ...
In his 1991 article for The New York Times, "The Transformation of a Klansman", regarding the true identity of author Asa Earl Carter (who wrote as Forrest Carter), Carter suggested that their shared Southern heritage might make the two men distant cousins; this suggestion has subsequently been put forward as fact in later publications. [4] [5] [6]
John Carter (1613–January 10, 1670) was an English merchant who emigrated to the Virginia colony, where he speculated in land, established plantations using indentured and enslaved labor, and served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. [1]
Daniel William Carter ONZM (born 5 March 1982) is a New Zealand retired rugby union player. Carter played for the Crusaders in Super Rugby and for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks . He is the highest point scorer in test match rugby , [ 1 ] and is considered by many experts as the greatest ever first five-eighth (fly-half) in the ...
Martin's Hundred was one of the subsidiary "particular" plantations of the joint-stock Virginia Company of London. It was owned by a group of investors known as The Society of Martin's Hundred, named for Richard Martin, recorder of the City of London, [1] (not to be confused with his near-contemporary Richard Martin who was the father of Jamestown councilor John Martin). [2]
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US stock markets will close Jan. 9 as the United States mourns Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th president who died aged 100 on Sunday evening. The announcement came just one day after Joe Biden ...
William Bernard Walters, Superintendent of Stock Transfer Office, Crown Agents for the Colonies. Maud Ward, Superintendent of Nurses, Nethersole Hospital, Hong Kong. Thomas Edwin Went, Assistant to the Colonial Engineer, Barbados. Cecil Winnington-Ingram, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Tanganyika.