English settlement
Jamestown, for example
English settlement refers to a community established by English colonizers or immigrants, particularly in North America, Australia, and other territories during the colonial era: Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America.
The term can also mean the process of English people establishing residence in a new area, or a legal resolution reached under English law.
- JamestownFirst permanent English settlement
- wellDug water source
- common lawJurisprudence from judicial decisions
- PuritanismProtestant reform movement
- town meetingLocal governance assembly
colonial charter · Barbados · timber-framed houses · Plymouth Colony · Mayflower Compact · indentured servitude · barn · Virginia · cultural assimilation · cottage · Bermuda · land grants · Roanoke · trade networks · Anglican Church · Massachusetts Bay · forts · timber
English settlementFrench settlement
Territory colonized by Paris
Spanish colony · French colony · New France · New Amsterdam · Spanish mission
English settlementtrading post
Remote commerce station
fur trading post · factory · military outpost · frontier fort · garrison
English settlementnative village
Birthplace settlement
indigenous community · tribal village · tribal community · indigenous territory · ancestral homeland
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