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Born c.1590 • England
Died January 7, 1658 • New Haven • Connecticut
Title / Office governor (1639-1658), New Haven
Founder New Haven
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Margaret Brent
British colonist
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John Davenport
Puritan clergyman
New English Canaan
Thomas Morton
English clergyman
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker
British American colonial clergyman
Bradford, William
William Bradford
Plymouth colony governor
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William Brewster
British colonist
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson
American religious leader
John Rolfe
John Rolfe
British colonial official
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William Coddington
colonial governor of Rhode Island
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Bartholomew Gosnold
English explorer
Edward Winslow, detail of an oil painting by Robert Walker, 1651; in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.
Edward Winslow
governor of Plymouth colony
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William Claiborne
American colonial governor
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Thomas Dudley
British colonial governor
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John Carver
British colonial governor
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John Alden
English colonist
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Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
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Priscilla Alden
English colonist
Engraved portrait of William Penn wearing a dark coat, white cravat, and wide-brimmed hat, with shoulder-length curly hair.
William Penn
English religious leader
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Humphrey Gilbert
Humphrey Gilbert
British explorer