Education was the most important thing to the New England Colonists, even allowing girls, African Americans and Native Americans, and slaves to learn basic literacy skills.

Colonists would willingly pay for cheaper Company tea, on which the Townshend tax was still collected, thus legitimising Parliament's ability to tax the colonies.

Colonists said no man was represented if he were not allowed to vote.

Under the Osmeña Colony Act of 1912, Pikit was founded on June 17, 1913 by the first Christian Filipino Colonists from the Province of Cebu, About one hundred twenty Cebuanos came under the Colony Agent, Vicente Lozada, The first batch of colonists from Cebu arrived at Fort Pikit after two days of sailing on board a river boat called " Hall ", followed the Rio Grande de Mindanao.

The town was named after Colonel William Henry Adelbert Feilding, a director of the Emigrants and Colonists Aid Corporation Ltd. who negotiated the purchase of a 100, 000 acre ( 400 km² ) block of land from the Wellington provincial government in 1871.

He was the first Chairman of the South Australian Gas Company, from 1862 was a governor of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, president of the South Australian Old Colonists ' Association, and was for many years on the council of the University of Adelaide.

Colonists tried to enslave Brazilian natives in the beginning, but this quickly proved too difficult for many reasons, including the familiarity natives had with the land.

As a result of the French and Indian Wars, Britain began to try to recoup the costs of those wars by instituting a series of additional taxes on the Colonists, and had left parts of their army in the colonies to help provide for their defense.

Colonists settled New Preston in 1741, and the General Assembly of the Connecticut Colony granted a petition for the establishment of the New Preston Ecclesiastical Society in 1753.

Colonists used the term " Old Forts " for the mounds and earthworks created by the prehistoric cultures who were called mound builders.

Colonists with loyalist sympathies accounted for an estimated 20 % to 30 % of the white colonial population of the day, compared with about 40 % who were considered patriots.

* Thomas Paine's 1776 Common Sense ( pamphlet ) advocated freedom from British rule for the American Colonists, and proposed a constitution for the new nation

In 1588, Grenville equipped seven ships at Bideford with supplies and more Colonists for Raleigh's ' Planters ' Colony settled at Roanoke the previous year.

Colonists, such as Phillip Schuyler, Nicholas Herkimer, William Johnson, trading with the Iroquois set the stage for commercial and military competition between European nations, leading to the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution.

Colonists fenced off land for grazing and farming according to their traditional practices.

Colonists who had paid their own passage to Virginia received a " first dividend " of, free of quit-rent, for their " personal adventure ", and an additional hundred acres for each share they owned in the London Company:

Colonists adopted the name of the local people for the Oconaluftee River in the Great Smoky Mountains ; in the Hitchiti language, Oconaluftee means " separated Oconee people.

Graham for Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707 – 1783

Colonists who had already purchased land before departing were given first choice on 23 March 1837, and the remaining areas were auctioned for between 2 and 14 guineas.

The American Colonists were embraced by the Jewish and Palestinian communities for their good works, among them, teaching in both Muslim and Jewish schools.

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* " Motion Made by Vincent Ogé the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789 ", Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

Colonists made shingles out of cedar trees, while using pine and oak for hardwood flooring.

Colonists who had already been living in Virginia were each given two headrights of 50 acres ( 200, 000 m² ); immigrant colonists who paid for their passage were given one headright, and individuals would subsequently receive one headright each time they paid for the passage of another individual.

Colonists brought livestock over from Europe which caused many changes to the land.

* The Cape Colonists send a commissioner to Europe to attract more settlers

Frankish Colonists were encouraged to move to the newly conquered territories.

" Colonists ", sent to the island to establish possession claims by the United States, built the Earhart Light — named after Amelia Earhart — as a day beacon or navigational landmark.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.

* The video game series Zone of the Enders is based during a war between Earth's Government and Martian Colonists seeking independence.

Colonists in Virginia noted thousands of acres under cultivation by Native Americans.

Colonists found that Native American slaves could easily escape, as they knew the country.

Colonists placed ads about runaway slaves.

Colonists appropriated tribal land by force and treaty, including the Treaty of 1677, which made the signatory tribes tributary states.

* March – Molasses Act passed by Parliament of Great Britain, which aided in the negative opinions of the British by American Colonists.

Greek Colonists from Knidos under Pentathlos arrived at Lipara in 580 BC and settled on the site of the village now known as Castello.

Colonists often faced the threat of attacks from neighboring colonies, as well as from indigenous tribes and pirates.

Colonists of various ethnicities settled mainly in the area of the former colony, outside of the official boundaries, and as a consequence, in the first third of the 19th century, Moldavanka emerged as the dominant settlement.

Colonists played a significant role in the development of the town.

The death is presented in some detail in G. A. Henty's The Young Colonists: A Tale of The Zulu and Boer Wars ( 1885 ).

Colonists might have tried to reach that island.

Colonists objected that the Townshend Acts were a violation of the natural, charter, and constitutional rights of British subjects in the colonies.

Traditional French Creole is spoken among those families determined to keep the language alive or in regions below New Orleans around St. James and St. John Parishes where German immigres originally settled ( also known as ' the German Coast ', or Les Cote Des Allemandes ) and cultivated the land, keeping the ill-equipped French Colonists from starvation during the Colonial Period and adopting commonly spoken French and Creole French ( arriving with the exiles ) as a language of trade.

In 1734, Joseph Hurlbut settled the eastern section of what is now Washington, marking the beginning of the town's inhabitation by Colonists.