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Hace 3 días · New England was soon settled by English Puritans whose aversion to idleness and luxury served admirably the need of fledgling communities where the work to be done was so prodigious and the hands so few.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 5 días · Virginia was a much more mobile and unruly society. Unlike New England, where settlement was restricted to family units, Virginia was settled mostly by single men bound in servitude. The settlers of Virginia and neighboring Maryland were seeking to establish economic prosperity rather than upholding strict religious ideals.
Hace 5 días · June 2, 2024 by Derek Strahan. The house at 520 Main Street in Wethersfield, around 1935-1942. Image courtesy of the Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033:28, WPA Records, Architectural Survey. The house in 2024: The historical marker on this house indicates that it was built around 1769 as the home of Samuel Boardman.
Hace 3 días · Free blacks in the New England Colonies and Middle Colonies in the North as well as Southern Colonies fought on both sides of the War, but the majority fought for the Patriots. Gary Nash reports that there were about 9,000 black veteran Patriots, counting the Continental Army and Navy, state militia units, privateers, wagoneers in the Army, servants to officers, and spies. [205]
Hace 4 días · Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History by James Ciment. Call Number: E162 C68 2006. ISBN: 0765680653. "major thematic essays, hundreds of easy-to-reference entries, thematic and regional chronologies, numerous primary documents, plus hundreds of illustrations"
Hace 4 días · Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England 1628-1686 Worlds of Change: Materials from 17th and 18th century North America 17th Century
Hace 5 días · The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods, runaways who liberated themselves, and those who were subsequently captured and confined in jails...
