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13 Colonies
Pilgrims, Puritans and other Colonies
People | Identity |
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John Wycliffe | (1320?-1384) exposed false doctrines of the Roman church and had the entire Bible translated into English for the first time. Has been called the "Morning Star of the Reformation." |
William Tyndale | (1492-1536) translated and first printed English Bible |
John Cabot | 1497 an Italian navigator sailing for England in the Modern Age that was first to set foot on the mainland of North America |
Sir Francis Drake | 1545-1596) a British explorer, slave-trader, privateer (a pirate working for a government) in the service of England. He led the second expedition to sail around the world on his ship the Golden Hind. Claimed northern California for England, Nova Albion. |
Henry VIII | 1530 broke England's ties with the Roman church |
Sir Martin Frobisher | 1576 an explorer sent by Queen Elizabeth in search of the Northwest Passage |
Sir Humphrey Gilbert | 1578 claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth, was caught in a storm and drowned |
Sir Walter Raleigh | 1584 sent and expedition which explored Albemarle Sound and the island of Roanoke and named the territory Virginia for Queen Elizabeth the Virgin Queen |
John White | Set up the Roanoke colony with a party of over 100 settlers. By 1591 the colony had vanished. |
Captain John Smith | 1608 took charge of the colony of Jamestown and saved it from destruction. |
John Rolfe | a famous Virginia settler who married the Native American Princess Pocahontas, the daughter of the chieftain Powhatan |
Nathaniel Bacon | a wealthy young plantation owner, who led a rebellion insisting that all citizens were entitled to protection |
John Robinson | 1609 led a group of 300 Separatists to the Leyden where they enjoyed religious freedom and economic success |
nSir Edwin Sandys | 1620 an Eglish Puritan nobleman secured a patent from the London Company to settle the Pilgrims within its Virginia territory |
Squanto | a Native American who had visited England and learned to speak English served the Pilgrims as a guide and interpreter and teaching them to hunt, fish and plant crops. |
Wiliam Brewster | (1567-1644) a leader and pastor for the Pilgrims |
John Carver | (1576-1621)Pilgrims' first elected governor of the Plymouth Colony |
William Bradford | 1621 became governor of Plymouth Colony and served for over 30 years. Wrote "History of Plymouth Plantation" published in 1856. |
Miles Standish | (1584?-1656) a commander-in-chief of the Pilgrims' military defense |
John and Priscilla Alden | Pilgrims |
Charles I | 1629 monarch of England vowed to rule without Parliament |
John Winthrop | (1588-1649) was chosen to be governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Thomas Hooker | (1586?-1647) a pastor of the Puritan church in Newtown Massachusetts who led his congregation to a new territory along the Connecticut River. |
Roger Williams | 1636 founded Providence, Rhode Island after being banished from the Massachusetts Colony because of disagreements on several matters. |
Sir Edmund Andros | was appointed by King James to be Royal Governor over the Dominion of New England(a move to unite the New England colonies) |
George, Cecilius, and Leonard Calvert | first and second Lord Baltimore were granted territory north of the Potomac River, which they intended to be a haven for English Catholics |
Henry Hudson | 1609 explored the Hudson and Delaware River valleys for the Dutch East India company |
Peter Minuit | was an agent for the Dutch West India Company and purchased Manhattan Island from Native Americans for trading goods worth $24 |
Peter Stuyvesant | governor of New Netherland, which the English later named New York |
James II | Duke of York, monarch of England, became deposed in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution |
William Penn | son of a wealthy prestigious Englishman, became a Quaker, was granted land now called Pennsylvania |
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley | 1664 received land from the Duke of York now called New Jersey. |
James Oglethorpe | a wealthy and influential Englishman who helped establish a colony for Englishmen to work and pay for debts |