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Antonio María Martínez

Agustín de Iturbide was in possession of Mexico, and Martínez, at the request of the Baron de Bastrop, approved Moses Austin's petition for permission to bring 300 settlers into Texas.

Balsfjord

Rev. Bomstad left St. Peter traveling by mule to Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, where near the east bank of a lake (previously called "Lake Lillian"), he became the founding father of Lake Lillian, Minnesota in May 1864 (one hour ahead of the town's next settler, Mr. O.E. Hart, previously of New York).

Blackstone River

The river is named after William Blackstone (original spelling William Blaxton) who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1623, and became the first settler of present day Boston in 1625.

Boonton Township, New Jersey

The first settler of proper record was Frederick DeMouth of French Huguenot extraction.

Canning Downs

The fertile lands around the upper reaches of the Condamine River provided an excellent site for the home of early settler, Patrick Leslie.

Charles Parkhurst

Charley Parkhurst (1812–1879), American transgender stagecoach driver and settler

Clara Blinn

Clara Blinn (1847–1868) was a white settler who, with her two-year-old son Willie, was captured by Indians in October 1868 in Colorado Territory during an attack on the wagon train in which she and her family were traveling.

Coates, Minnesota

The city of Coates incorporated in 1953 at the northwest corner of Vermillion Township, and was named for early settler G. A. Coates.

Colonel John Henry Moore

Colonel John Henry Moore was an early Texas settler, one of the Old Three Hundred first land grantees to settle the territory.

Danbury, New Hampshire

In 1795, it was set off and incorporated, the name suggested by a settler from Danbury, Connecticut.

Deir Dibwan

In August 2008 the settler leadership of Migron were to vote on an Israeli Defense Ministry proposal to relocate the unauthorized Migron outpost, possibly to an undeveloped area of a nearby settlement.

Drayton, Queensland

Thomas Alford, an early settler in the area who built a house, general store, and post office in the area, named the town after his home village in Somerset.

Dunstable, Massachusetts

It is likely named after the town of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, home of Edward Tyng, the town's first settler.

Echium plantagineum in Australia

It is said that both names for the plant derive from Jane Paterson or Patterson, an early settler of the country near Albury.

Frank Richter

Frank Richter, Sr. (1837–1910), Canadian rancher and settler of British Columbia

Gamay Beaujolais

In the late 1930s an early pioneer of the American viticulture, Paul Masson, brought with him several Burgundian grapes for his winery in California.

George E. Royce

His great grandfather Adonijah Rice, was a member of Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War, and his great, great grandfather Jonas Rice was the original European settler of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Göngu-Hrólfs saga

Although the hero shares a name with the settler of Normandy, he has no connection with Rollo, being an earlier and wholly legendary individual.

Gookin

Daniel Gookin (1612–1687) was a settler of Virginia and Massachusetts, and a writer on the subject of American Indians.

Guggisberg

However, in 1819 the canton began moving many landless poor (Allmendsiedler literally: Common land settler) into the municipality.

Hamilton, New South Wales

In 1947, Lettesi (a settler group made up of nearly 150 families from the village of Lettopalena in the

Henry E. Chambers

Maria Charles was a daughter of Caleb and Sarah Charles of Lovell in Oxford County, Maine, and a descendat of John Charles, pioneer settler in 1636 of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Heyfield, Victoria

In 1841 an early settler, James McFarlane, described the district as resembling "a field of waving corn", and called it "Hayfield".

James Ben Ali Haggin

Haggin was born in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, a descendant of one of the state's pioneer families who had settled there in 1775 and a descendant of Ibrahim Ben Ali, who was an early American settler of Turkish origin.

James MacLaren

James Maclaren (1818–1892), early settler and entrepreneur in western Quebec

Jeffrey Max Jones

He is the great-great-great grandson of Daniel Webster Jones, an influential early settler in Utah and the Arizona Territory.

John Henry Moore

Colonel John Henry Moore (1800–1880) Early Texas settler and an officer in the Texas Revolution

Jonathan Alder High School

The school, as well as the district, are named after Jonathan Alder, the first white settler in Madison County.

Lilydale, Victoria

It is believed to have been named after either an 1852 song "Lilly Dale" by H. S. Thompson or the wife of an original settler named Lilly de Castella.

Lion Brewing and Malting Company

Robert Cock, a "first settler" who accompanied Governor Hindmarsh on HMS Buffalo, and for whom Cox's Creek was named, has been reported as founder of the malting business.

Micromeria douglasii

It was so abundant there that its name was also applied to the settler's town adjacent to Mission San Francisco de Asís.

Milton, Wisconsin

It is believed that Milton is named after poet John Milton, author of "Paradise Lost", after a settler remarked that the town was his "Paradise Regained" after leaving his previous home, which he thought of as a paradise lost.

Mullica

Eric Pålsson Mullica, an early Finnish settler of New Jersey who is the source of the name of all of the geographic features and place names

Myers College

It was founded by his grandson, Raja Yassir H. Sarfraz, and was named after a Rajput prince, Raja Mair, the first settler in this area and ancestor of the Mair-Minhas tribe, an offshoot of the Jamwal Dogra Rajputs.

New Carrollton, Maryland

Carrollton was named after early Maryland settler Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Oakleigh, Victoria

The origins of the name of the suburb, "Oakleigh," is unclear, local historians have three main theories - that it was derived from she-oaks that grew near Scotchmans Creek; from "Oakleigh Park" an estate near Malvern Hills in England; or from Mrs. Oakley an early settler.

Olney Township, Nobles County, Minnesota

Finally, on June 15, 1874, the board accepted the suggestion of pioneer settler R. W. Moberly that the township be named after Olney, Illinois, county seat of Richland County, Illinois.

Payette River

Logging helped to spur even more people to move into the area, and in 1911, the Idaho Northern Railroad was constructed by the OSL, running from Emmett near the mouth of the Payette along the river, past present-day Black Canyon Reservoir, up into the North Fork watershed and ending just below Long Valley at Smith's Ferry on the river, named for a settler who bought the operation in 1891.

Pepetela

Mayombe, for example, is a novel that portrays the lives of a group of MPLA guerrillas who are involved in the anti-colonial struggle in Cabinda, Yaka follows the lives of members of a white settler family in the coastal town of Benguela, and A Geração da Utopia reveals the disillusionment of young Angolans during the post-independence period.

Rice's Crossing, Texas

Settled in 1845 and originally called Blue Hill, the community was renamed Rice's Crossing in 1872 in honor of James O. Rice, a Texas Ranger and early settler.

Settler

Although they are often thought of as traveling by sea—the dominant form of travel in the early modern era—significant waves of settlement could also use long overland routes, such as the Great Trek by the Boer-Afrikaners in South Africa, or the Oregon Trail in the United States.

Svensen, Oregon

According to Oregon Geographic Names, it is named after Peter Svensen, an early settler.

The Africa House

The Africa House is an account of the life of soldier, pioneer white settler, politician and supporter of African independence Stewart Gore-Browne in relation to the building of his estate Shiwa Ngandu in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.

Thomas Austin

After farming near Ouse, Thomas and his brother James crossed Bass Strait in 1837 and settled as pioneer pastoralists in the Western District of the Port Phillip District (now called Victoria).

Thomas New

Thomas was a pioneer settler of the Dunedoo and Warren districts, and operated pubs and traded livestock.

Torhout

Josse van Huerter, first settler, and captain-major of the island of Faial in the Portuguese Azores.

William Balmain

This resulted in the affair of John Baughan, a settler who had tried to set up a flour mill.

William Gorges

William Gorges became embroiled in a dispute with George Cleeve, a cantankerous early settler, who departed for England, where he voiced his complaints to Sir Ferdinando, who then recalled his nephew in 1637.

Yanun

On October 30, 2002, together with David Shulman, a group that included the distinguished Israeli writers Amos Oz, Meir Shalev, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, the daughter of Haim Gouri, with Rabbi Menachem Froman, co-founder of Gush Emunim and a settler in Tekoa, Ian Buruma and an assortment of Israeli television camera crews and journalists visited Yanun to assist the returned villagers with their harvest and ward off settlers.


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