Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ), and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country.

Most archaeologists estimate that the earliest settlers arrived in outrigger canoes from southern Borneo in successive waves throughout the period between 350 BCE and 550 CE, making Madagascar one of the last major landmasses on Earth to be settled by humans.

Most of the islands ' native population ( 90 %- 95 %) died from Spanish diseases or married non-Chamorro settlers under Spanish rule.

Most Seychellois are descendants of early French settlers and East Africans who arrived in the 19th century.

Most of the languages spoken today in the Solomon Islands derive from this era, but some thirty languages of the pre-Austronesian settlers survive ( see East Papuan languages ).

Most of the American settlers in Mexico were from southern states, where slavery was still legal.

Most of the first settlers were brought over by a programme operated by the New Zealand Company ( inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield ) and were located in the central region on either side of Cook Strait, and at Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson.

Most insulae were given to the first settlers of a Roman city, but each person had to pay to construct his own house.

Most Donegal Protestants would trace their ancestors to settlers who arrived during the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th-century.

Most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente, who opened the land to American settlers, loggers, European whalers, and fur-traders

Most conflicts were between Han from Fujian and Han from Guangdong, between people from different areas of Fujian, between Han and Hakka settlers, or simply between people of different surnames engaged in clan feuds.

Most Icelanders are descendants of Norwegian settlers and Celts from Ireland and Scotland who were brought over as slaves during the age of settlement.

Most of the early settlers in Castle Valley claimed easily watered bottom lands along the creeks and rivers, and by 1879, most of the best lands had been taken up.

Most of the original pioneer settlers were self-sufficient farmers.

Most of the settlers homesteaded around the number of tributaries that fed the Columbia River.

Most of the settlers came from Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi.

Most records show that the majority of early settlers were farmers.

Most of the early European-American settlers were of little means ; they were subsistence farmers throughout the early years of the county's establishment.

Most of the settlers had enjoyed freedom of worship in their previous homes but found here they were restricted in worshipping God according to their Protestant tradition.

Most of the settlers were from Kentucky.

Most of the settlers entered the county over what was called Charley's Trace, an Indian trail that came across from the Mississippi river and entered the hills about where Leverett is now located.

Most of these settlers became farmers.

Most of the new settlers were French, Spaniards, French Creoles, Spanish Creoles, Africans and African Americans.

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

He writes, `` Most of my friends and I were Jewish ; ;

Most of them were elderly men.

Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.

Most of our working days were spent on the telephone calling `` bookies '', illegal gambling dens, a certain `` residential club for young actresses '', more than a hundred different bars or the steam room of the athletic club.

Most of the Junkers were above the blinding light of the flares, and the radar-controlled shore gun had been knocked out by one of the first sticks of bombs.

Most of the letters were written in the hubbub of camp, on stumps, pieces of bark, drum heads, or the knee.

Most manufacturers were now disposed to heed a proposal for the formal interchange of patents.

Most children love the animated puppet faces and their flexible bodies, and they prefer to see them as though the puppets were in action, rather than put away in boxes.

Most of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep with a cigarette.

Most of them were written between 1953 and 1960 and originally appeared in various magazines.

Most of their original objections about `` shells '' were overridden by the relief that these hideous ( to them ) bodies were mercifully concealed.

Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.

Most agnostid species were eyeless.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Most Germanic tribes were generally tolerant of the Nicene beliefs of their subjects.

Most of the remaining fortifications including the Curtain walls and Keep date to this period and were built by the Armenians.

Most of the pilings that form the foundation of Venice were made from alder trees.

Most of the Alemanni were probably at the time in fact resident in or close to the borders of Germania Superior.

Most agates occur as nodules in volcanic rocks or ancient lavas where they represent cavities originally produced by the disengagement of volatiles in the molten mass which were then filled, wholly or partially, by siliceous matter deposited in regular layers upon the walls.

Most later Alexanders in various countries were directly or indirectly named for him.

Most government positions also were appointed by the legislature.