Half a million people emigrated from England in the century after 1607, but most went to Ireland or the West Indies, not to North America. Some of the early New England towns restricted access to l...
"[If] any man or woman be a witch (that is) hath or consulteth w[ith] a familiar spirit, they shall be put to death." "When there were no people in this country but Indians, and before any others w...
Approximate number of Native Americans living in New England when the Pilgrams first arrived: 100,000 Number of English colonists who settled in to New England in the seventeenth century: 21,000 Nu...
Algonquian people, Algonkian, Algonquians, Algonquian Members of tribes that belong to the Algonquian (also spelled Algonkian) branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic family in North America....
