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State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map. This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.
George Soule (c. 1601 – between 20 September 1677 and 22 January 1679) [1] was a colonist who was one of the indentured servants on the Mayflower and helped establish Plymouth Colony in 1620. [1] He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.
Elizabeth Tilley (c. August 1607 – December 21, 1687) was one of the passengers on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower and a participant in the first Thanksgiving in the New World. She was the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Tilley and his wife Joan Hurst and, although she was their youngest child, appears to be the only one who ...
Some residents embrace the quirks of living in a fan-favorite home, where visitors might take photos outside, recite famous lines out loud, or even gather once in a while for a convention — like ...
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. Per William Bradford's later recollection of this family on the Mayflower: "John Tillie, and his wife; and Elizabeth, their daughter." [10] The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on 6/16 September 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Francis Cooke (c.1583 – April 7, 1663) was a Leiden Separatist, who went to America in 1620 on the Pilgrim ship Mayflower, which arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , and a signer of the Mayflower Compact .
On November 9/19, 1620, after about 3 months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia , strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbour at Cape Cod hook ...