Camp is an English family name taken from Latin roots.The name is found in Great Britain and in other places throughout the world settled by the English.According the 2000 census there are fewer than 1300 Camps in the UK.…
It was created in 1976 by the state legislature in order to create and improve tourism, recreation and development in the included counties.Its name came about due to the region being settled by the English in the 1770s.The area was the site of a number of Revolutionary War battles including the Battle of Kings Mountain.…
But for many years to come they regarded the French buccaneers with suspicion, as doubtful allies.When they sailed away from Tortuga they sought out other haunts on islands partly settled by the English.…Cited from On the Spanish Main, by John Masefield
Other Englishmen from Massachusetts Bay, hearing of these new fertile lands and of friendly Indians and a profitable fur trade, came overland, making their way through the wilderness.By and by their numbers were so great that the Dutch were crowded out and driven away and Connecticut was settled by the English.…Cited from Once Upon A Time In Connecticut, by C. Newton
It is home to the Adam Keeling House and the Keeling family cemetery.Before the area was settled by the English colonists, Chesepioc was located at Great Neck Point.It was a village of the Chesepians, the Native American (American Indian) inhabitants of the area during the Woodland Period and later prior to the arrival of the English settlers in 1607.…
In the colonial era, before 1776, the west was of high priority for settlers and politicians.The American frontier began when Jamestown, Virginia was settled by the English in 1607.In the earliest days of European settlement of the Atlantic coast, down to about 1680, the frontier was essentially any part of the interior of the continent beyond the fringe of existing settlements along the Atlantic coast.…
First settled by the English in 1664, the township was originally called Monomoit based on the indigenous population's term for the region.
South Carolina, settled by French Huguenots and Germans in 1691, became a royal colony in 1729.Georgia, the last English colony, was settled by the English in 1732 and had her royal charter in 1762.I have given the colonial dates in regular order of chronology.…Cited from Historic Papers, by Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts
The island appears on his hand-drawn map found in The Netherlands National Archives.After the Milford area was settled by the English in 1639 the island was referred to as Milford Island.After Charles Deal bought the island in 1657 it became known as Charles Island.…
Wrentham was first settled by the English in 1660 and officially incorporated in 1673.
English attempted to settle at Cow Bay at what today is Port Washington, New York in 1640 but were arrested and released after saying they were mistaken about the title.Following Alexander's death in 1640 eastern Long Island was quickly settled by the English while the western portion waited 40 years until the Dutch left.…
In 1812, Fort Widner was built as protection against the Native Americans during the second war with Great Britain.Although the area was initially settled by the English, cheap available government land and the aspect of work on the Wabash & Erie Canal brought other immigrants to the area.Freelandville was settled mostly by immigrants from Germany, many from the province of Prussia, in the mid-1800s.…
This was historically the territory of Algonquian-speaking peoples, especially the Potapoco and the more dominant Piscataway.Settled by the English in the 17th century and established in 1727, the town on the Port Tobacco River soon became the second largest in Maryland.The first county seat of Charles County, it was a seaport with access to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.…
This was an area that was home for the Potawatomi tribe and Goguac Lake was said to be a gathering place for them from time to time.Since being settled by the English in the early nineteenth century, Goguac Lake has provided irrigation for crops, a ready supply of water and a focal point for community recreation.Like many lakes throughout the early 20th Century, Goguac Lake was once home to a small amusement park, called Liberty Amusement Park.…
No longer a shipping port, Bermuda Hundred is now a small community in the southeastern portion of Chesterfield County Chester, Virginia.The town of Bermuda Hundred was settled by the English in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale, and was incorporated the following year.The town, described as a fishing village, was situated "on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers, southeast of Richmond, and northeast of Petersburg."…
Shelton was settled by the English as part of the town of Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639.On May 15, 1656, the Court of the Colony of Connecticut in Hartford affirmed that the town of Stratford included all of the territory inland from Long Island Sound, between the Housatonic River and the Fairfield town line.…
The vision that built Fort New Casco in 1700, that of a partnership between the English and local Native Americans, was dead.New Casco could not be safely settled by the English until the fall of Quebec in 1759 permanently removed the threat of French and Indian attack.Living so far away from Portland was dangerous: only one family lived in the town in 1725, an Indian raid in 1745 and the murder of Job Burnal in 1751 represented the risks colonists undertook to live in the area.…
About 2.4% of families and 5.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 11.9% of those age 65 or over.The area that is now Florham Park was first settled by the English sometime between 1680 and 1700, and the community was long recognized as a prime farming area.The area was known for the manufacture of quality brooms, which was the source of one of its names, Broomtown.…
Let us begin at the beginning and get at the actual situation.The thirteen original colonies were as follows: Virginia settled by the English, called the cavaliers, in 1607, became a royal colony in 1624.Massachusetts, settled by the Puritans in 1620, became a royal colony in 1629; New York, called Amsterdam, settled by the Dutch in 1623, became a royal colony in 1688; the English were in New York in 1664.…Cited from Historic Papers, by Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts
But I do not believe it is true, because those abandoned farms were not settled by the English until years after the Acadians were expelled, and the lands at Annapolis were not occupied until nine or ten years after the French had left them.Why did not the English colonists settle upon those abandoned farms at once, if they were so anxious to have them?…Cited from The King's Arrow, by H. A. Cody
