Martin Cornelisz Ysselsteyn
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Geertje Ysselsteyn
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1666 - 1763

1634

1634 • Lord Leonard Calvert arrives in Maryland with Jesuit missionaries Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor and Thomas Gervase, establishing St. Mary's as the fourth permanent settlement in British North America. In this year they also establish an institution of higher learning here which later becomes Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.

1659


Age: 25y
1659 Jan van Riebeeck produces the first South African wine at the Cape of Good Hope.

1666


Age: 32y

1675


Age: 41y
1675 • Massachusetts troops march to Swansea to join the Plymouth troops.

1705


Age: 71y
1705 • The Province of Carolina incorporates the town of Bath, making it the first incorporated town in present day North Carolina. The town becomes the political center and de facto capital of the northern portion of the Province of Carolina until Edenton is incorporated in 1722.

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