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1630
| 1630 • Passengers of the Arbella, including Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the New World at Salem, Massachusetts. |
1650
Age: 20y
birth of childLydia Way 1 Source ⇓ |
1650
Age: 20y
marriageGeorge Way 3 Sources ⇓ |
1650
Age: 20y
movedCape Neddock, Maine, USA ⇓ And Winter Harbor. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1650 • Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army. |
1653
Age: 23y
movedPemaquid, Maine, USA ⇓ A William Way is buried at Pemaquid. In February 1654 at Providence, George Way asked the town meeting "to grant me comodation to bee a inhabytant with you". At a town meeting 18 February 1661, "It hath this day been declared by sufficient witnesses in this court that John Steere and George Way were received into the town after the manner that John Browne was; town hath manifested themselves satisfied therewith". 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1653 • New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. |
1713
Apr 20
Age: 83y
| 1713 • French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia. |