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William Byrd
09/22/2013 22:02
William Byrd was a planter and slave owner who was born on March 28, 1674, and died on August 26, 1744. He is from Charles City County, Virginia, and is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia. Byrd is best known today as a writer. Excerpts of his diaries are frequently put...
Edward Taylor
09/22/2013 20:49
Edward Taylor was an American poet that lived from 1642-1729. About ten years after the death of his mother and father, Taylor sailed to Boston to find religious freedom. Once he arrived in Boston, Taylor was accepted into Harvard University, with the help of Puritan...
The Early Putitans
09/22/2013 20:38
The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th century, who believed that the Bible was God's true law, and provided them with a plan for living. They had hopes of "purifying" the church and their own lives. Most of the Puritans ended up settling in the New...
John Smtih
09/22/2013 20:01
John Smith was born in 1580 in Willoughby, England, and by age 16, after his fathers death, he had left home and was on his own. Before Smith was 25 he had been in three wars and had been captured and enslaved. Smith was the first man to promote permanent settlement...
William Bradford
09/22/2013 19:00
By: Gabi Rodriguez
The son of a Puritan farmer, William Bradford was born in Yorkshire, England. At the age of seventeen, he joined the Separatist church The Church of England was...
Mary Rowlandson
09/22/2013 18:23The Gentlemen Planters
09/22/2013 18:13
The Gentlemen Planters lived on plantations with many acres of land and fields worked by African American slaves. Puritan settlements were more like villages and had less slaves. These men settled in the South because it had warmer weather and richer soil for growing crops. Each...
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