Sentence examples for group of colonists from inspiring English sources

Only a fraction of the original group of colonists made it back alive.

"Almost every place is abandoned," a group of colonists wrote to authorities in Holland in late 1643.

Tannenberg came to the United States in 1740 with a group of colonists from the Moravian Church.

The efforts of the APA were unsuccessfully opposed by another, more conservative group of colonists that, while favouring representative government, sought to exclude Emancipists from political participation.

In late September 1608 a ship brought a new group of colonists that included Jamestown's first women: Mistress Forrest and her maid, Anne Burras.

Thorfinn, who was a successful trader and sea captain, reached what was known as the eastern settlement of Greenland with a group of colonists in 1003.

The books are set on a lush and abundant "new world", settled by a group of religious colonists who left Earth to establish a better, simpler life elsewhere.

The History Settled by a group of English colonists from Long Island in 1665, Rumson was largely a farming community, with only a handful of large estates, until 1870, when the Sea Bright Bridge across the Shrewsbury River opened.

It all began in Boston -- when a group of brave colonists resisted the yoke of a despotic king and sought freedom.

Calvert dispatched Captain Edward Wynne and a group of Welsh colonists to Ferryland, where they landed in August 1621, and set about constructing a settlement.

Wessagusset A more serious threat came from the Massachusett tribe to the north and was precipitated by the arrival of a new group of English colonists.