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Speakers of the House of Burgesses==The office of Speaker of the lower house of the legislature in the Province of Carolina was called the House of Burgesses . Since the House was the only elected body in the colony, the Speaker was often seen as the leading voice of the people. In 1729 seven of the Lords Proprietors sold their interests in Carolina to the Crown, and both North Carolina and Sou...
Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig has after years of investigations compiled a list of early colonists in New Sweden. The list replaces the one published by Amandus Johnson in his classic book Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River from 1911. Below is a list of settlers mentioned in the article. People are indexed on both given names and possible surnames or additional names. Most of the Finns came f...
The Farber Collection is a photographs collection held by the The American Antiquarian Society Photographs of Sculpture on American GravestonesAn unusual but valuable collection at the American Antiquarian Society is that of the photographs of grave markers. Old burial grounds are treasure houses of early American sculpture and of historical and genealogical information. As Harriet Merrifield F...
Objective==This project brings together the governors of the Delaware Colony in the North American Middle Colonies and of the state of Delaware.==Background==Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south. It was initially colonized by Dutch trade...
War (1722–1725), also known as Lovewell's War, Father Rale's War, Greylock's War, the Three Years War, the 4th Indian War[2] or the Wabanaki-New England War of 1722–1725,[3] was a series of battles between British settlers of the three northernmost British colonies of North America of the time and the Wabanaki Confederacy (specifically Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Abenaki), who were allied with New F...
This is a place for all men who served as members of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut during the 1636 - 1776 period, before it was replaced by the Connecticut General Assembly (which remains today).The seat of the Court was originally at Hartford, then began alternating with New Haven when that colony merged with the Connecticut Colony.Other information will be here when someone a...
Please add your pioneer and notable ancestors of Hopewell to this project. Collaborators, feel free to update the page, add resources, documents, images ...==origins==Hopewell’s first inhabitants were Lenapes, an Algonquin tribe who welcomed Europeans because they needed protection from other Indians. Their Hopewell villages were Wissamonson [Woodbridge] and Minnepenasson [Stoutsburg]. New Jers...
Colonial Lords of Manors =Some of the people who financed and promoted the American colonies envisioned a new world similar to the world they knew in Europe. In many cases, this vision led them to try transplanting the remnants of feudalism, including the manorial and seigneurial systems that were the cornerstone of economic life.The American lords of manors (and their equivalents) often derive...