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    Indentured Servant

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    and have fought for my life since my arrival, in 1607, to Jamestown, Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, a swampy land, full of mosquitos, with a dry and humid climate. I urge you not to come to North America because you will face mistreatment as a laborer, bad relationships with neighbors, and high mortality rates. I arrived to the Chesapeake Bay in 1607 with about 100 other poor, lower sort, young English males through the Virginia Company, a joint stock company, charter. Unfortunately, by May of…

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    Fausz Missing Women

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    Missing Women of Martin's Hundred” In J. Frederick Fausz’s paper, “Global Implications of Patent Law Variation,” Fausz discloses the unfamiliar historical events surrounding the captured women from Martin’s Hundred plantation during the onslaught of Virginia colonists, which was exerted by Indian warriors as a part of the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. The events surrounding the captured women never gained much attention among historians due to the great interest in researching the effects of the…

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    “I can’t believe that I have to eat, sleep, and breathe on this college campus. The people are so bizarre. Can I just lay in my bed and not go to class?” contemplated Paul, as he lay awake in his bed the first Monday morning of the semester. Paul had walked around James Madison University’s campus during FROG week with the feeling of dread; James Madison University had not been his first choice (he had his eyes set on Harvard), but it was the only college that he got an acceptance letter from.…

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    Most people are taught that the natives were treated friendly when the Europeans came to explore, this is not the case. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The General History of Virginia by John Smith are novels of settlers and native relations. In both John Smith and William Bradford's texts, the men show themselves as heroes and the natives as lesser by denigrating their language, tricking them with contracts, and, having negative expectations. The Pilgrims, like the settlers at…

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    Although New England and the Chesapeake region were settled by people of English origin, the two regions became two distinct societies due to the people who inhabited each area. The majority of settlers going to New England were families escaping English Civil War and the persecution of Puritans that came with it. They were looking for religious freedom for themselves. In John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity, directed towards the people headed towards New England on the Arabella, stated…

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    achievments. Whether it is natural beauty or man-made, New Hampshire has a lot to offer. Many visitors become stunned with its beauty and enjoy its natural resorts. New Hampshire , abbreviated NH, has a capital of Concord, and was originally named North Virginia and New England. It was established in 1788. New Hampshire has four nicknames. NH.Gov explains the these names. “ The Granite state” for its overabundant quantities of granite stone. “ Mother of Rivers” for the New England rivers that…

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    Captain Handley was a country developer, because he was the type of man who helped people . He bought schools in Roanoke so that children will get their education and to have people to teach the school he offered them free land so that they’ll have somewhere to stay while here teaching , he also helped with the building. Captain Handley was a great man he owned a mill here in Roanoke that provided jobs for people and if they had children they went to school close to their parents jobs and the…

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    The Chesapeake region had a profound impact on the Europeans and the New World who settled during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A tobacco plant rapidly became the European and the New World’s greatest successes. As farming started to cultivate, tobacco farming became increasingly important to English farmers. Tobacco required vast amount of land and careful nurture in order to make it profitable. Since the growth of tobacco was a primary cash crop in the area, it introduced the…

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    between 1750 and 1800. Patrick Henry wrote during this time period of American literature, and as such, remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of his time. Patrick Henry was born on May 29, 1736 in Studley, Virginia and died of cancer in Red Hill, Virginia on June 6, 1799. Patrick Henry is the second son of John Henry, a farmer, and Sarah Winston. Patrick married Sarah Shelton, like his father, he became…

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    The New England society of the Massachusetts bay colony and the Chesapeake colony of Virginia were different in development by the distinctive groups of colonist that built up their towns, religiously persecuted families that were looking to establish a perfect church society in the New England region, where as young single men came to look for gold and wealth in the Chesapeake region. Because of this difference in types of colonists, there was a major difference in the type of economy that came…

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