• 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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  • Richard Smith may refer to: RAS-1, stage name of Richard Arthur Smith, American musician Richard Bernhard Smith (1901–1935), American composer who wrote...
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  • Richard Olmsted (February 20, 1612 – April 20, 1687) was a founding settler of both Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut. He served in the General Court...
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  • This is a collection of lists of early settlers (before 1700) in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Most of the lists are of the earliest...
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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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    Richard Harold Smith AC FRSA (born 18 March 1944) is an Australian entrepreneur and aviator. He is the founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Australian Geographic...
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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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    Windows: The Settlers II (1996), The Settlers III (1998), The Settlers IV (2001), The Settlers: Heritage of Kings (2004), The Settlers: Rise of an Empire...
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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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  • 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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  • 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 joined...
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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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    faith. Through his mother, Nixon was a descendant of the early English settler Thomas Cornell. Nixon's upbringing was influenced by Quaker observances...
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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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    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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    The settlers suffered terrible hardships in its early years, including starvation, native attacks, and sickness. By early 1610 most of the settlers, 80-90%...
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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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  • 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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  • disappeared 1628) was an early Scot settler of the New England area, considered the founder and first non-native settler of New Hampshire. He was granted...
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    Valley as a Mormon pioneer with the first company of settlers in 1847. In the winter of 1850, Smith led a company of volunteers to establish a colony in...
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    in Jamestown. In England when the massacre occurred, John Smith believed that the settlers would not leave their plantations to defend the colony. He...
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  • Massachusetts. These early settlers were brought as skilled artisans by the English soldier–adventurer Captain John Smith, and included a glass blower...
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    Susquehanna County in 1791 where they bought land and became the first permanent settlers. Isaac and Elizabeth were members of the first Methodist Episcopal congregation...
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    Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & Slaves in the Age of Jackson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), p. 42. Smith 2013, p. 31. Snyder, pp. 42–43...
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    "The Barton Homestead was a constant reminder of the area's first settler, Richard Barton, when Brian was a lad. It started as a slab in 1841 and was...
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  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private liberal arts colleges in Geneva, New York. They trace their origins to Geneva Academy established in 1797...
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    were known as the Hart Bridge, after a settler of West Cornwall. Local tradition states that Selectman Marcus Smith traveled to North Adams, Massachusetts...
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    Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67581-0. Francis, RD; Jones, Richard; Smith, Donald B (2009). Journeys: A History of Canada. Nelson Education....
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    John Smith, third President of the council and author of many books from the period Edward Maria Wingfield, first president of the council The settlers came...
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    response to the Israeli occupation, blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, restrictions on the movement of Palestinians...
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