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Definition of Colonists
1. colonist [n] - See also: colonist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonists
Literary usage of Colonists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by CT Historical Society (1914)
"ANCESTORS OF THE colonists OF LONDONDERRY. The historians of the austere Pilgrims
of Plymouth and the stern Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay colony have ..."
2. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1907)
"The political consciousness of the colonists, on the other hand, ... Before the
courts the colonists might be held responsible for acts which under ..."
3. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1891)
"There was also a larger per cent, of pure Spanish blood in the colonists here than
... In this fact the colonists took great pride, and often spoke of their ..."
4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"Before this miserable account was written it had naturally occurred to Thurloe
that a supply of other than military 1655. colonists would be likely to ..."
5. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1889)
"Before the colonists entered upon the search for a home, ... Moreover, since the
spot which the colonists had occupied lay outside the bounds of the ..."
6. Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"... Don Pedro Menendez, sent by Philip II. to destroy the French colonists who
had presumed to settle on what he claimed to be Spanish territory, ..."
7. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"AMONG the natural rights of the colonists are these : First, a right to life;
secondly, to liberty; thirdly, to property; — together with the right to ..."
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