Who Is St. John's Island?

Mi’kmaq was the spelling of a tribe of Indians that had first contact with European explorers in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Through the years, the name has been changed to what we know today as Mic Mac. The word Mi’kmaq derives from the word nikmak, which means “my kin-friends” or allies. The rich and descriptive Mi’kmaq language was a member of the Algonkin family. Although every Mi’kmaq can understand each other, the dialect varies between bands. For example, the Mi’kmaq spoken in Quebec differs from that in Nova Scotia. The Mi’kmaq tribe settled in southwestern New Foundland in 1630. They were the “first nation people” (Nova Scotia 1) of Nova Scotia and later also settled in New England. They are

The Lost Colony- English settlers first came to the island of Roanoke in 1585. The colony that they established ended up failing. They started battling American Indians but did not have enough supplies. John White was sent back to England for supplies. When he returned to Roanoke Island in 1590 everyone was gone.

In the 1600’s, there started a migration to the new world by people of English origin. This

But what does all this have to do with the topic? So far all this information is just the discovering of America and who was here first and how they got here. In 1607, a group of London investors known as the Virginia Company sent a small convoy of vessels to Chesapeake Bay, where hundred men built a fort they named Jamestown in honor of King James I (Faragher, Buhle and Czitrom). Chesapeake Bay was already home to many Indians. This became the first English settlement in North America. Maybe this is the reason the topic is on this specific year.

Macquarie Island is a natural site yet human research has helped the life on the island.

The first successful British colonization of the Americas was in the Chesapeake area and anchored by Jamestown which was founded in 1607. The original colonists nearly didn’t make it, as it was a very difficult life for them. Moreover, the colonists founded many

The first one-fourth of the seventeenth century transmigration was mostly to the Virginia colony and specifically to Jamestown, the first everlasting settlement in America. Although most of Jamestown’s historical documentation came from an eyewitness account of the colony’s development from Captain John Smith, his understanding of the events occurring around him could be misinterpretations of normal Native American culture and the North American environment. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that English citizens who risked the harsh voyage to the Americas were looking for

On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus reached land in the New World. He believed he reached India but others later discovered he had really reached what would become America. Many would come after Columbus to the land already lived on by Native Americans; some would claim different parts to gain profit and use the Native Americans as slaves to work the land, while others would come to the New World for a more permanent cause. During Europe’s time of religious unrest, two major groups traveled to the New World in hopes of starting a colony to get away from religious turmoil and to make a profit. Those who founded Jamestown (Chesapeake region) in 1607 were motivated by financial success while those who founded the Massachusetts Bay (New England)

On February 1736, James Oglethorpe and the first English settlers arrived on St. Simons Island. Then in March 1736, Reverend Charles Wesley, a Methodist, entered his ministry at Frederica. Georgia became a royal colony in 1752. The Revolutionary War prevented the establishment of an official church on St. Simons Island. Following the Revolutionary War, in 1808, Christ Church began. The small population on St. Simons possessed great beliefs and followed the teachings of Christ even though there was no church building until 1820. The first church, constructed on the same spot where the current church now stands.

During the seventeenth century, the Europeans were the first to cross the Atlantic. Many groups from England, were sent out to North America to two regions. Those two regions were New England, and The Chesapeake.

“On April 26, 1607, three small ships carrying colonists from England sailed out of the morning mist at what is now called Cape Henry…” (Foner, 4th Edition Volume 1, 49). This quote shows the beginning

In September 1583, two ships sailed through the rough mid-Atlantic ocean toward the New World. They left Plymouth, England to grab land for Queen Elizabeth. She wanted more land in the new world for expansion for the English. Edward Hayes was the captain of the ship named the Golden Hind and the other captain was Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his ship was named the Squirrel. On September 9th, the look out on the Hind shouted to his captain, that the Squirrel was going down. Captain Hayes could do nothing as he watched the Squirrel get swamped and was sent to the bottom of the ocean. The first attempt to colonize America was a failure.

Two years later in 1587, another expedition to the failed colony was made. John White set sail with 117 colonists- 91 men, 17 women and 9 children. They immediately started repairing what the original settlers had started. Evidently they required more

would call their land “Ta Seti”. This meant the land of the bow. It was given the name because it

The Portuguese settled in eastern Brazil, the French along the St. Lawrence River in present-day Canada, first explored by Jacques Cartier and then settled sixty years later by Samuel de Champlain. The English came to the New World late, after several failed expeditions by Walter Raleigh, Humphrey Gilbert, and Martin Frobisher. Once the Jamestown colony survived its first trials of starvation, disease, riots, and violence with the Powhatan tribe, the English expanded from this base up and down the eastern coast of North America.