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To: muawiyah

Good info, although I'm more inclined to believe it's from Vikings settling along the coastline.


61 posted on 02/04/2006 12:52:06 PM PST by zeeba neighba
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To: zeeba neighba

The first known PERMANENT Scandinavian settlement was what is now called Delaware. We know that oly a handful of the people there were Swedes. The rest were the sort who live in tents in the winter!


63 posted on 02/04/2006 3:10:29 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: zeeba neighba
BTW, European settlement along the East Coast in the 1500s hasn't been studied very much. I read recently there are about 30 settlement sites from the 1500s that are known, but haven't been studied by anyone.

Early records name some such places. "Brick Rowe" is mentioned in early Jamestown records, for example, but this could be a site in New Jersey or North Carolina for all anyone knows. Then there are the mysterious Wallonian settlers who built the Wall from which Wall Street gets its name. Although it's claimed that the wall was built under the Dutch, it seems to have been there before Manhattan was first sold. So, who were those people and why were they there? No European source informs us.

66 posted on 02/04/2006 3:24:36 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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