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A Loyalist settlement dating from 1783 — groups of colonists were evacuated from Savannah and Charleston along with black slaves who escaped their owners — Green Turtle in recent years has become a getaway for the rich and famous.
Take that universally popular caged bird, the budgerigar , first encountered in the inland of New South Wales and known to the colonists from the 1840s.
Once the colonists were good enough seamen to land whales, it was perhaps only natural that they might turn their skills to another historical marine tradition: piracy.
The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.
Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.