Our Pre-Revolutionary War Colonists
with their dates of arrival in America
Their voyages were long and arduous often lasting many weeks at sea in
uncomfortable, rat-infested cargo ships -- usually only five, ten, maybe
thirty passengers suffered through the trip together. |
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Colonists
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Emigrated From |
Arrival Date |
Where They Settled |
Capt. Owen Gwynn |
Gwydin, Canarvan, Wales |
1611 |
Gwynn's Island, Virginia |
Jonathan Giles |
Isle of Wight county England |
1619 |
Jamestown, Virginia |
Christopher Branch |
London, Middlesex, England |
1624 |
Henrico County, Virginia |
| Thomas Parish |
Cambridge, England |
1635 |
New England Colony, Mass. |
Thomas Pettus |
Norwich, Norfolk, England |
1637 |
Lancaster, Virginia |
Sir Thomas Peyton |
Isleham, Cambridge, England |
1640 |
Gloucester, Matthews, Virginia |
Edward Harrington |
Somerset, England |
1643 |
Jamestown, Virginia |
Richard Archer |
Essex, England |
1665 |
Henrico, Virginia, |
Rev. Rowland Jones |
Buckinghamshire, England |
1674 |
Williamsburg, James City, Virginia |
William Burbidge |
England |
Born 1628 |
Blisland Parish, New Kent , James City, Virginia |
Samuel Poe |
Nottingham, Derbyshire, England |
1704 |
Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia |
Col. John Dandridge |
London, England |
1715 |
Fredericksburg City, Virginia |
| Jorg Wetzstein |
German Palatinates |
1735 |
Funkstown, Maryland |
Simon & Jacob Stookey |
Bern, Switzerland |
1737 |
Berkeley County, Virginia |
Johann Jacob Sutz (Suits) |
Saarland, Germany |
1749 |
Guilford County, North Carolina |
Jacob Daniel Scherer |
Oberbetzbach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |
1752 |
Guilford County, North Carolina |
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