Edward Bennett b. 2 February 1576 d. 30 September 1664

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2 February 1576 birth: Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England, /77

30 September 1664 death: Isle Of Wight, VA

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1644. On April 18, in Virginia, Chief Opechancanough led Indians in an attack and killed nearly 500 colonists. In October, a resident in Jamestown shot him, then a prisoner, in the back. 1644. The merger of the then separate British colony of Portsmouth in Rhode Island into Rhode Island proper. 1646. The Civil War in England ended with victory of the Puritan Roundheads over the Cavaliers. 1647. The death, in England, of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the famous seaman from Somerset, England. He was knighted for his work in the colonization of New England. 1647. Richard Hunt and his wife Sarah, of Bromley, Kent, England, arrived in the Bermuda Islands and took possession of the estates, etc. of the then Earl of Manchester in those islands in which he was one of the proprietors. Sarah Hunt was one of the nieces of the Earl. He had devised by his last will his landed property in the Bermudas in trust to the Earl of Warwick, Lord Holland and Sir Nathanial Rich, his executors, for the benefit of one of his nieces deemed the most worthy. Richard and Sarah Hunt brought with them a daughter, also named Sarah. 1648. George Fox founded the Society of Friends (Quakers). 1648. Governor/Captain William Sayles and the Eleutheran Adventurers sailed from Bermuda in 1648 and settled the Bahamas. Governor Sayles served three terms as Governor of Bermuda before becoming the first Governor of the Bahamas and first Governor of Carolina (before it was split in two as North and South Carolina). 1649. On January 31, King Charles I was beheaded in London by Parliamentary forces under Oliver Cromwell. The English Commonwealth was established. In America, the Iroquois destroyed the Hurons and their Jesuit mission. 1650. On January 1, in London, the Committee administering the affairs of Bermuda wrote to Captain Josias Foster, the island's Governor, ordering him to fund and accommodate Ministers from New England for the purpose of teaching letters and Godliness to adults and youth. As a direct result, Bermuda's first school, Warwick Academy, was created from the New England model of 1635. 1650. In England, John Churchill, the future first Duke of Marlborough, was born. Rene Descartes died. So did Sylvester Jourdain, who became famous after his Bermuda experience. He was buried at St. Sepulchre Church, Newgate, London. 1650. Mass immigration of British settlers to Bermuda ended. 1651. The first Indian reservation was established, near Richmond, Virginia. 1652. A British fleet representing the Parliament of Oliver Cromwell arrived off the Virginia island coast. Berkeley surrendered Virginia. As a result, the Virginia legislature was dominated by the House of Burgesses until 1660. 1656. In Bermuda, a slave uprising was foiled and all blacks previously given their freedom were banished. 1658. Oliver Cromwell died in England. 1659. The birth in England of composer Henry Purcell. 1660. On March 3 the Virginia Assembly elected Berkeley as Governor.

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