The Old Planters of Massachusetts were settlers of lands on Massachusetts Bay that were not part of the two major settlements in the area, the Plymouth...
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left vacant by the Acadian Expulsion Old Planters (Massachusetts), early settlers of Massachusetts A farmer Planter class, the collective class of plantation...
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Thomas Gardner (c. 1592 – 1674) was an Overseer of the "old planters" party of the Dorchester Company who landed in 1624 at Cape Ann to form a colony at...
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the Massachusetts Bay Company. Conant stepped aside and was granted 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land in compensation. These "New Planters" and the "Old Planters"...
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before 1633 and settled along the James River where they became wealthy planters; they are often referred to as the James River Harrisons. Successive generations...
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Road". "52 Jeffreys Neck Road, Shatswell Planters Cottage (c 1646)" https://historicipswich.org/shatswell-planters-cottage-jeffreys-neck-road/ "Archived...
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Cape Ann (redirect from Cape Ann, Massachusetts)
of Massachusetts. This colony predated Massachusetts Bay charter and colony. For that reason, members of the colony were referred to as "old planters"....
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Nantucket (redirect from Nantucket County, Massachusetts)
county/town government in the state of Massachusetts, USA. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both Massachusetts and the New England region. The name...
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2022. Young, Alexander (1846). Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623–1636. Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown. p. 26...
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historians of the antebellum South defined planters as those who held 20 enslaved people. Major planters held many more, especially in the Deep South...
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Columbian exchange (redirect from Old World diseases)
and in perfumery. Rice became widely planted in the New World; European planters there relied upon the skills of African slaves to cultivate it. Georgia...
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Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts (Northampton: Metcalf, 1863), p. 25. "It may be conjectured that some of the first planters of Hadley came from the...
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Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20. "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Massachusetts; United States". Census.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-20. "U.S. Census Bureau...
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Southampton (/saʊθˈhæmptən/ ) is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It was established first as a district of Northampton in 1732...
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involved in transporting New England Planters to settle Nova Scotia on the former Acadian farms. Many troops from Massachusetts participated in the successful...
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state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved November 7, 2021...
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dominate the antebellum Old South for generations. Sons of British nobility established American plantations where the planter class employed indentured...
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Bulkeley was an influential religious leader who "carried a good number of planters with him into the woods"; Willard was a canny trader who spoke the Algonquian...
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than the Church of England. In the early spring of 1639, approximately 60 planters took up residence on land cleared by the natives. In May, an elected planning...
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Doubleday. p. 113. ISBN 9780307758965. Charles C. Bolton, "Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South." in Lacy K. Ford, ed., A Companion to the Civil...
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The history of Springfield, Massachusetts dates back to the colonial period, when it was founded in 1636 as Agawam Plantation, named after a nearby village...
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2014. Young, Alexander (1846). Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623–1636, pp. 313–14. Boston: Charles C. Little and...
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John Hancock Jr. (category Burials in Massachusetts)
American clergyman, soldier, planter, politician, and father of politician John Hancock. Hancock was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, He was the son of Col...
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Tristram Coffin (settler) (category People from Nantucket, Massachusetts)
Tristram Coffin (or Coffyn) (c. 1609 – 2 October 1681) was an immigrant to Massachusetts from England. In 1659 he led a group of investors that bought Nantucket...
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Great House (Cape Ann) (category Houses in Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts. It was later disassembled and moved to Salem, Massachusetts, to be the Governor's house. When Thomas Gardner with his party of "old planters"...
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eighth century or so for an earlier settlement called Beverlac – a ... "Old Planters – Balch House Associates Newsletter: Balch House Dendrochronology Report"...
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John Hancock Sr. (category Clergy from colonial Massachusetts)
Hancock–Clarke House for his father. He is buried at the Old Burying Ground in Lexington, Massachusetts. New England Historic Genealogical Society (1877) The...
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Neck Road, Shatswell Planters Cottage (c 1646)". Historic Ipswich. Retrieved May 8, 2022. "John Ellis House" (PDF). Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information...
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Augustine Washington (category American planters)
Augustine Washington Sr. (1694 – April 12, 1743) was an American planter and merchant. Born in Westmoreland, Virginia, he was the father of ten children...
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The following are notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse (founded in 1611). Wikisource has original text related to this article:...
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