John Davenport

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History Events

1606 - First Charter granted Virginia

1606 Council for Virginia formed

1607 - 12th May  First settlers land at Jamestown, Virginia,America

1607 - 19th August  First settlement founded at Fort St George, Sagahadoc, now Maine, New England, America

1609 - 3rd of October -  Fort Algernon at Point Comfort, Virginia, built by New England settlers

1619 - Sir Edwin Sandys gains control of London Company for Virginia 

1620 - Mayflower sets sail for America

1620 - 3rd November - Council for New England formed in London

1620 - 20th December - The Mayflower arrives at Plymouth, half the settlers die during the first winter.

1621 - 10th September - Sir William Alexander, obtains a patent for Nova Scotia (New Scotland)

1621 - 9th November - The "Fortune" arrives at Plymouth and rescues the "Pilgrims".

1622 - The grant of the Provinces of Maine and New Hampshire made by  Council of New England, 

1623 - Christopher Levett of York, England secures a grant of six thousand acres on the coast of Casco Bay. in Maine, from the Council for New England 

1623 - June/July - The Anne and Little James arrive at Plymouth with Mary Hilton, and children William and Mary Hilton

1624 - William Hilton and his family found Hilton Point in New Hampshire

1629/30 - 12th March - Edward Hilton granted the"Squamscott Patent.  

1639 -  4 December. Edward Hilton, is recorded living at Exeter in Maine trading furs with the Indians

1643/4 - William Hilton Deputy for Dover to Massachusetts Bay General Court

1648 - 27 June "Mr. William Hilton running an Inn and ferry to New Castle at Kittery on border between Maine & New Hampshire

1652 William Hilton recorded as an Alderman at York in Maine

1682 - John Hilton, part of the "Hilton Gang" working for King Charles II is recorded in London as "bedecked in a blue velvet cape, the best periwig, and a white beaver hat"

Founder of the New Haven Colony in America

John Davenport was the founder of the New Haven colony in America where Yale University now stands. He was educated at Oxford University and appointed Preacher at Hylton Castle at Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, in  North East of England in 1615. 

In 1619 he moved to London where he was elected lecturer and curate of the church of St Lawrence, Old Jewry, London.and became . He preached before the Virginia Company of London and became a member of the company in 1622 -  Source; The New Haven Colony-Isabel MacBeath Calder, Yale University Press

Preacher at St Katherine's Chapel , Hylton Castle 1615-1619

St Katherine's Chapel

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