Sentence examples for settler of the from inspiring English sources

It probably was named for Isaac Green, an early settler of the area.

The borough was named after the Bronx River, which was named after Jonas Bronck, a Swede, who was the first European settler of the region in 1639.

He may have been the grandson of Pierre Menard, an early settler of the state who served as its first lieutenant governor.

The son of a voortrekker (Boer pioneer settler of the interior), he grew up in the Orange Free State, where he received his only formal education at a German mission school.

They were born five years apart, Chamberlain in 1828, the son of an old-line New England Puritan, Oates in 1833, of a pioneer settler of the Alabama frontier.

It is not logical to assume that a settler of the late 18th century would waste the time to claim credit for a structure that others knew already existed.

You learned about the first settlers of the town.

He descended from the earliest settlers of the country on both sides of his family.

Those early determined settlers of the west had something the cynics didn't: American grit.

My paternal ancestors were some of those Dutch settlers of the early to mid-17th century.

Black immigrants arrived along with the French, British and Scottish settlers of the British colonial era.