• John Smith (c. 1595 – c. 1649) was a founding settler of Providence in what would become the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Smith...
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    merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for...
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    Mózes Székely. Jamestown was established on May 14, 1607. Smith trained the first settlers to work at farming and fishing, thus saving the colony from...
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  • Look up John Smith in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. John Smith is a common personal name. It is also commonly used as a placeholder name and pseudonym...
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    Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother, Hyrum Smith, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, United...
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  • arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of...
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  • Richard Smith (1596–1666) was the first European settler in the Narragansett country (later Washington County, Rhode Island) in the Colony of Rhode Island...
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    arriving Latter Day Saint settlers provoked tensions between the two groups, much as they had in Jackson County. By this time, Smith's experiences with mob...
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  • meeting with John Smith and the arrival of the British settlers in Jamestown, the sequel focuses on Pocahontas's journey to England with John Rolfe to negotiate...
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  • Ableman (settler) Ackley, Iowa – J.W. Ackley (founder) Acworth, New Hampshire – Jacob Acworth (British naval officer) Ada Township, Michigan – Ada Smith (daughter...
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    description of the origin of the Granny Smith apple was not published until 1924. In that year, Farmer and Settler published the account of a local historian...
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  • Jamestown Colony in Virginia by English settlers and the relationship between John Smith and Pocahontas. She married John Rolfe in real life. It is also known...
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  • John Tarleton (1808 or 1811 – 1895) was an American settler and rancher. He is best known for endowing John Tarleton Agricultural College, which eventually...
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    Pocahontas (redirect from Mrs John Rolfe)
    Pocahontas is most famously linked to colonist John Smith, who arrived in Virginia with 100 other settlers in April 1607. The colonists built a fort on...
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  • John Allen (1806–1879) was an English settler in the colony of Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) who had some success as a farmer. He also made an early...
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  • John Joel Glanton (c. 1819 – April 23, 1850) was an early settler of Arkansas Territory. He was also a Texas Ranger and a soldier in the Mexican–American...
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    Christopher Comstock (October 7, 1635 – December 8, 1702) was an early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a deputy of the General Assembly of the...
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    Raised on the frontier of the British Empire in the UK's youngest settler colony, Smith and his generation of white Rhodesians grew up with a reputation...
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    well as non-motorized transportation. The island was charted by John Smith. British settlers arrived on the island in the 17th century, coming from Cornwall...
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  • was founded by the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales after losing their weekly Farmer and Settler. It was later published by Rural...
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    rarely, a weroansqua (female), meaning "commander". As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were recognized by English colonists...
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    Governor Sir John Harvey in 1632, it also mandated that the court could only be in session when Farrar was present.: 168  After 1619, settlers could purchase...
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    members were Bartholomew Gosnold, John Martin, John Ratcliffe, George Kendall, Christopher Newport (ex officio) and John Smith. Council members in bold. Titles...
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  • career, Smith decides to return to England. Before departing, he leaves instructions with another settler, who later tells Pocahontas that Smith died in...
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  • entitled The New Sound of the Settlers. In 1976 the line up disbanded and Mike Jones advertised for players. Steve Somers-Smith, a young singer/songwriter...
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    Burrage 1906, pp. 357–94. Smith, John (1616). A description of New England: or The observations, and discoveries, of Captain John Smith (admirall of that country)...
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    1585. Despite the dispatch of more supplies, only 60 of the original 214 settlers survived the 1609–1610 Starving Time. In mid-1610, the survivors abandoned...
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    1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams, but he used the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger...
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  • John Whipple (c. 1617–1685) was an early settler of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who later settled in Providence in the Colony of Rhode...
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  • John Platt (January 11, 1632 – November 6, 1705) was an early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a member of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut...
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