years old today...was purchased from Paugusset Indians on February 1, 1639.
Put that in your PLSS pipe and smoke it!!!!:-P 😉 😉
"Don Juan de Onate became the first Governor-General of New Mexico and established the capital in 1598 at San Juan Pueblo, 25 miles north of Santa Fe. After Onate retired, Don Pedro de Peralta was appointed Governor-General in 1609. One year later, he had moved the capital to present day Santa Fe."
Joe
Smoke your own Colonial Pipe
David
"In 1682, Robert de LaSalle claimed the Louisiana Territory for France ("New France" or Louisiana, was named to honor Louis XIV). In addition to present day Missouri, the territory included all or part of present-day Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Idaho. Soon French settlers were establishing trading posts and forts in the new territory. During the early years of French occupation, trade with the Indians was the only major industry."
Yep... you got us beat by 43 years.
hah...that doesn't count..
they didn't even speeak English!!;-)
I guess I'll throw in here with the discovery of Cape Cod in
"In 986, Norwegian-born Eirik Thorvaldsson, known as Eirik the Red, explored and colonized the southwestern part of Greenland. It was his son, Leiv Eiriksson, who became the first European to set foot on the shores of North America, and the first explorer of Norwegian extraction now accorded worldwide recognition......
......The exact location of the third, which was named Vinland, is a matter of scholastic controversy, but it could have been as far north as northern Newfoundland or as far south as Cape Cod or even beyond this."
Well, we have found viking evidence on the Cape......
I saw in the newspaper where a local man found the land grant document and map of survey for Kiawah Island SC and made a presentation to the mayor's office. The document was dated 1699.
you could easily add a hundred years, Gordon.... What with the lost colony and all...
"The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County in present-day North Carolina was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh. It was carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville (Raleigh's cousin) in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement in the Virginia Colony. Between 1585 and 1587, several groups attempted to establish a colony, but either abandoned the settlement or died. The final group of colonists disappeared after three years elapsed without supplies from England during the Anglo-Spanish War. They are known as "The Lost Colony" and their fate is still unknown."
Joe C.
I've been trying to trace down some of my ancestors lately. I found a George Hubbard who settled first in Wethersfield (1635)and later in Milford (1639). I wonder if he was the original surveyor of Milford.
The Caddo Indians had a big main camp about 15 miles South of my town. They go back more than a thousand years.
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St. Augustine, FL. EST. 8-28-1565. At that time some of my ancestors had been here in N.A. a few thousand years.:-P
