Daily Life in Colonial America
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Life in Colonial America was difficult and often short but the colonists made the best of their situation in the hopes of making a better life for themselves and their families. The early English colonists who established Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay Colony, used to purchasing what they needed, found they were now required to either import items from the mother country, make them, or do without. Even later arrivals, unless of the upper class, found the New World challenging as most people had to work hard just to survive.
Mystic Massacre of 1637
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The Mystic Massacre of 1637 (also known as the Pequot Massacre) was the pivotal event of the Pequot War (1636-1638) in New England fought between the English (along with their Native American allies the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes) and the Pequot tribe of modern-day Connecticut. The conflict was initiated by the English who accused the Pequots and one of their tributaries, the Niantics, of murdering English traders. Even though governors Sir Henry Vane (l. 1613-1662), and John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649) both accepted the explanation of the Pequot chief Sassacus (l. c. 1560-1637) for the murders, as well as the
Jamestown Brides
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Jamestown brides (also known as tobacco brides) were young, single women transported from England to the Jamestown Colony of Virginia between 1620-1624 CE to be married to colonists already established there. These women were provided with dowries by the Virginia Company of London, which had funded the expedition that established Jamestown in 1607 CE. Many of the men who had traveled there afterwards had made whatever sum seemed sufficient to them and then returned to England to marry while others had died and still others had married Native American brides and gone to live with their tribes. One of the founders of the Virginia Company, Sir Edwin Sandys (pronounced Sands, l. 1561-1629 CE) established the program of sending women-as-brides in 1619 CE in order to stop men from deserting the colony and provide stability, harmony, and a sense of community and so the Jamestown Brides program was initiated.
Henricus Colony of Virginia
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Henricus (1611-1622 CE, also known as Henrico, Henryco, Citie of Henryco) was a colony established in Virginia, above Jamestown, in 1611 CE by Sir Thomas Dale (l. c. 1560-1619 CE). Dale had been ordered by the Virginia Company of London – which had funded the expedition that established Jamestown Colony of Virginia – to locate a site for a new colony that would replace Jamestown as capital. Dale’s mission was to find better land for a colony as well as to fortify it against possible attacks by the Spanish who objected to England’s colonization efforts in North America, claiming it was already theirs.
The Indian Massacre of 1622 CE was an attack on the settlements of the Virginia Colony by the tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy under their leader Opchanacanough.