It gave them political influence as a large group of voters; it gave them access to applying for land to
make permanent settlements.
Not exact matches
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.
Fort Orange was the first
permanent Dutch
settlement in New Netherland, built as a trading post by the West India Company in 1624 at the present - day location of Albany,
making the city the oldest continuously occupied European
settlement in the United States, north of Virginia.
He put forward a $ 20 billion plan, supplemented with money
made from state court
settlements, to build 100,000 units of
permanent housing and 20,000 supportive housing units over the next decade and a half.