Sentences with phrase «early settlers in»

Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, who later went on to found Dartmouth College, was one of the early settlers in the city.

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It was called a pound by the early settlers in the 1850s — they thought it looked like a traditional sheep pen.

Human bones are also there indicating the presence of early settlers in the island.

After Foxhounds were brought to the United States by early settlers in the 1600s, hunters used them to develop a new breed that had the size, speed, stamina and strength to hunt fox, raccoon and other animals, all day or all night, over rough terrain.

The modern Labrador's ancestors originated on the island of Newfoundland, Canada, and emerged over time from the St. John's Water Dog, (also a founding breed of the Newfoundland dog) through breedings by early settlers in the 1600s.

Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, who later went on to found Dartmouth College, was one of the early settlers in the city.

A visually stunning film with a wonderful, almost ambient score to back it up, The New World showcases a very realistic vision of what life must have been like to early settlers in what eventually became known as America.

According to David C. King, Scythians were early settlers in present - day Kyrgyzstan.

Also note that early settlers in the Americas also kept Irish slaves initially... it wasn't just blacks.

Check your history Linda, much of the land initially utilized by the early settlers in both Plymouth and Jamestown were unoccuppied by the locals because of swampy, fly - ridden conditions.

Owner Skip Foppiano's great - grandparents were among the earliest settlers in the area that is now Waterloo in central California, and they planted one of the first walnut orchards in the region.

Not exact matches

The Puritans and some other early settlers of America tried not to employ visual representations of God, although they surely must have had some mental image of God or Jesus as they spoke to him in prayer.

Some of the earliest American settlers from Europe, the first Pilgrims in Massachusetts, also thought so — until nearly all of them starved to death by the end of the first winter.

The early settlers came here to get away from persecution and discrimination from state - sponsored religion in Europe.

Read books that didn't come from the Texas School Board and you'll see that the consti.tution has separation of church and state — because of the religious intolerance the early settlers has experienced in Europe.

All four of my family names» Nuechterlein and Hubinger on my father's side, List and Strieter on my mother's» are included in the roster of the earliest settlers.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

The early Protestant settlers entered into their shipboard covenants, understood themselves as bound together in «the ligaments of love,» and defined their several callings as the way in which God ordained them to serve the common good.

All the persons mentioned above as friends of the Arabs and fighters for Arab rights were Zionist settlers, some early, some late, from Smilansky in 1890 to Buber in 1938.

The movement is indicative of the maturing process in the sense that it is a passing from the earlier phase in which the Islamic world was made up of Arab settlers and Arab garrison towns set apart from the native peoples of the provinces.

A lot of the earlier settlers came here to excape persecution from Christian Churches in Europe — they just couldn't them from following them here!

Although history doesn't reveal the origin of these cookies, it's believed that they were created by the descendants of the early Spanish settlers in New Mexico.

Horseradish was brought to North America by early settlers from Europe who began cultivating it in the East Coast colonies.

1621 — Early American settlers of Plimoth Plantation (1620 - 1692), the first permanent European settlement in southern New England, might have made pumpkin pies (of sorts) by making stewed pumpkins or by filling a hollowed out shell with milk, honey and spices, and then baking it in hot ashes.

«Within fourteen days of their arrival,» wrote Renata Coetzee in The South African Culinary Tradition, «these early settlers had laid out a vegetable garden.»

In New Mexico, Christmas traditions from Indian and Spanish cultures have further collided with the mostly English customs of the early eastern U.S. settlers to form an an amalgam of holiday fare.

He and the other soldier settlers in the Stanhope district suffered a number of hardships in the early 1920s, including droughts, rabbit plagues, and low milk prices.

This resulted in a unique geographical area of rolling hills and valleys that the early settlers of Wisconsin recognized as having rich soil for grass and crops.

Our early settlers used it to leaven pancakes and biscuits; today, we enjoy sourdough starter in treats as diverse as chocolate cake and pizza, where we value it for its rich, complex flavor as much as its ability to make things rise.

The recipe must have then made its way to New Zealand via our early British settlers (of which my grandfather's grandfather was one of), in the minds (or battered hand - written note books) of their wives and daughters.

Naper Settlement has focused on its uses in the 1800s as a functional craft of early settlers.

Among early settlers were the Hayt family, which built a farm called The Elm in 1720.

It may yet be too early to address the «moon base» scenario directly (unless of course you are Newt Gingrich), however, the concept underlying this discussion is not unlike the one the first European settlers in America (among other colonies) struggled with.

Originally constructed in the 1820's, the earliest settlers of Le Roy built the Creekside from black Marcellus shale dug from the Oatka Creek bed.

The smaller sandstone house, which sits on a knoll in the middle of the nine - acre tract, was built about 1723 by early Dutch settler Jacob Vanderbilt.

Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock - shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

Discoveries near the previously explored Monte Verde site add to evidence that the earliest New World settlers were not members of the Clovis culture, the investigators report November 18 in PLOS ONE.

The leaves of rooibos, translated from Afrikaans as «red bush,» are sipped in ruby - hued teas around the world but were previously sought by early settlers for their capacity to heal skin and reduce inflammation.

ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,» the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

EARLY ICELANDER A young woman now determined to have been one of Iceland's earliest settlers was found in 1938 in a grave with various Viking - era objects, including this pair of brooches.

But no dog remains have been found in northwestern North America, where the earliest settlers crossing a land bridge from Asia would have entered the New World.

In an analysis of ancient genomes published August 4 in Current Biology, researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden and Middle East Technical University in Turkey report that at least two waves of early European settlers belonged to the same gene pool as farmers in Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of MesopotamiIn an analysis of ancient genomes published August 4 in Current Biology, researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden and Middle East Technical University in Turkey report that at least two waves of early European settlers belonged to the same gene pool as farmers in Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of Mesopotamiin Current Biology, researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden and Middle East Technical University in Turkey report that at least two waves of early European settlers belonged to the same gene pool as farmers in Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of Mesopotamiin Sweden and Middle East Technical University in Turkey report that at least two waves of early European settlers belonged to the same gene pool as farmers in Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of Mesopotamiin Turkey report that at least two waves of early European settlers belonged to the same gene pool as farmers in Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of Mesopotamiin Central Turkey — genealogy that can be traced back to some of the first people to cultivate crops outside of Mesopotamia.

The high frequency of the mutation for gaitedness in the early Icelandic horses indicates that the Icelandic settlers preferably bred gaited horses — apparently the comfortable gaits proved to be particularly suitable for long distance travel through rough terrain.

Cave divers in Mexico have found the skeleton of a teenage girl who was one of the earliest American settlers

Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, archaeologist Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and his colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

But now, Robert Walter and Dorothy Merritts of Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania say those studies got it wrong, and the meandering streams are actually the result of early forms of land management imposed by the European settlers of the 17th century.

To commemorate the early settlers» spirit of adventure by letting the tag fly in the company of latterday adventurers: astronauts.

The University of Exeter study, funded in part by the European Research Council, also shows how important the huge wetlands and tropical forests of lowland South America were in providing food for early human settlers in South America.