Summers Family Story

Chapter 1 – Colonial Times

Merrie England (1594-1621)

Roanoke is lost (1590), Jamestown founded (1607), Slaves traded in Jamestown (1619), Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (1620),

Puritan Awakening (1621-1649)

First Thanksgiving (1621), Peter Minuit purchases Manhattan (1626), Pilgrims settle Massachusetts Bay (1630), Roger Williams banished from Boston (1635)

Reaction/Restoration (1649-1675)

King Phillip’s War (1675-76)

Glorious Revolution (1675-1704)

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676), King Charles II grants Pennsylvania to William Penn (1681), Six convicted Witches executed in Salem Massachusetts (1692)

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