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Eastern tribes, for example, used to delight and amaze early colonists with their resonant and evocative names--names that, when translated, turned out to have much of the broad humor and graphic wit of European-style nicknames.
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.
Serbs exported colonists to Kosovo and expelled Albanians.
King James added the name of Bermuda to the original Virginia Company Charter, and in the spring of 1612 more than 50 colonists were sent out on the Plough to join three pioneers who had volunteered to hold the fort.