Frenchman Jacques Cartier, for example, navigated the St. Lawrence River in the 1530s, and his compatriots founded colonies in Canada by the early 17th century. Simultaneously, the Dutch and ...

as it was the day the congregation built it in the early 1800s.” Gary also said the input of the descendant community will be at the center of how Colonial Williamsburg proceeds with the project ...

Their story marks an important historical transition, as the North American colonies ... detailed map of the Virginia region that Captain John Smith created for England in the early 1600s.

an early ambassador of Gov. Stuyvesant of New-Netherlands, who received from Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, in return for a highly interesting and singularly accurate map of Maryland ...

Our results support the Iberian origins of these animals but they also highlight another narrative: the exploration of the mid-Atlantic coast by the Spanish early during the colonial period." ...