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Indeed along with a slew of native British names that the English colonists transported to America, the traditional biblical names would dominate US birth registers well into the twentieth century.
The 70 colonists called themselves the Eleutherian Adventurers, but life was very difficult and the colony never flourished, though Sayle was long honored for the effort.
The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.
Four hundred years ago these crops brought British colonists to rule the land and African slaves to work it.
Occupation of Madeira began in the early 1420s as a decidedly minimalist project: colonists arrived with only as much as they could carry from mainland Portugal.