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Born c.1610 • Jersey • England
Died January 1680 • New Jersey
Political Affiliation Cavalier
Sir Edmund Andros
Sir Edmund Andros
English colonial official
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
William Penn
William Penn
English Quaker leader and colonist
Humphrey Gilbert
Humphrey Gilbert
British explorer
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker
American colonial clergyman
Bradford, William
William Bradford
Plymouth colony governor
Sir William Berkeley
British colonial official
Leonard Calvert
British colonial governor
Bartholomew Gosnold
English explorer
John Davenport
Puritan clergyman
John Carver
British colonial governor
George III
George III
king of Great Britain
William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth
British statesman
Charles Townshend
Charles Townshend
British statesman
Charles Watson Wentworth, 2nd marquess of Rockingham
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquess of Rockingham
prime minister of Great Britain
Sir Ferdinando Gorges
British colonist
James Edward Oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe
British military officer
Standish, portrait by an unknown artist
Myles Standish
American colonist
Charles I
Charles I
king of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles II, 19th-century engraving by William Holl.
Charles II
king of Great Britain and Ireland