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    "Ancient planter" (sometimes called ancient colony men) was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia when the settlement...
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    The planter class, also referred to as the planter aristocracy, was a racial and socioeconomic caste which emerged in the Americas during European colonization...
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  • 16th and 17th centuries Ancient planter, a colonist receiving one of the first land grants in Virginia New England Planters, settlers who moved to the...
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  • Richard Pace was an early settler and ancient planter in colonial Jamestown, Virginia. According to a 1622 account published by the London Company, Pace...
    31 KB (4,637 words) - 17:57, 10 July 2024
  • colony as a child in 1610 and was established as one of the few female ancient planters by 1620. After her husband Samuel Jordan died in 1623, Cecily obtained...
    19 KB (1,710 words) - 16:07, 29 May 2024
  • issued to "Captain Raleigh Croshaw, Gentleman, of Kiccoughtan, "An Ancient Planter who hath remained in this country 15 years complete and performed many...
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    he interacted with native leader Debedeavon. Thomas Savage was an ancient planter, married a tobacco bride, and had a son (John) that represented Northampton...
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    "ancient planters," were entitled to 100 acres (0.40 km2). John Rolfe described the situation in Jan-1620 in glowing terms: "All the ancient planters being...
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  • William Powell (Virginia colonist) (category American planters)
    colonist, landowner, militia officer and legislator. Considered an ancient planter for living in the Virginia colony during its first decade, he was one...
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  • Samuel Jordan (died 1623) was an early settler and Ancient Planter of colonial Jamestown. He arrived in Virginia around 1610, and served as a Burgess...
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    who owned a plantation was known as a planter. Historians of the prewar South have generally defined "planter" most precisely as a person owning property...
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    (later, Anne Laydon) was an early English settler in Virginia and an ancient planter. She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her...
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  • the Plantation at Accomac. Graves was the second Commander. As an "ancient planter" he received one of the first patents there on March 14, 1628, consisting...
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  • England, but migrated to the American colonies, becoming one of the "ancient planters". In 1619, Brown states in his "First Republic in America," that, "The...
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  • William Spencer (burgess) (category American planters)
    Spenser) was an early Virginia colonist on Jamestown Island, who was an Ancient planter and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in Jamestown, Virginia...
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  • Alington, 4th Baron Alington (1680–1691), Irish peer Giles Allington, the Ancient Planter Giles Alington (academic) (1914–1956), Fellow of University College...
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  • William Sharpe (burgess) (category American planters)
    Sergeant Sharp or William Sharp) was an early Virginia colonist, soldier, ancient planter, and Virginia Company shareholder who settled in the Bermuda Hundred...
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    traveling with family or relatives: Ursula Clawson, "kinswoman" of ancient planter Richard Pace, traveled with Pace and his wife on the Marmaduke. There...
    64 KB (7,833 words) - 20:51, 14 August 2024
  • lock of his hair and held him hostage as they escaped. Robert was an Ancient Planter, and thus received 100 acres of land for being present before the arrival...
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  • Sir George Yeardley (b. 1587 – d. 1627-11-13) was a planter and colonial governor of the colony of Virginia. He was also among the first slaveowners in...
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