His father Charles Turner and his father before him, Robert Turner arrived from England as a free settler from Leeds, England owned and ran several hotels in Bathurst including the Royal Hotel which still stands.

He remembered the family story that an early Dutch settler, one of their ancestors, had owned a good farm in this vicinity.

These settlers, like many other landowners throughout the colonies, owned slaves.

A series of reforms was instituted, the most important of which meant settlers could own their land, rather than just working for the Company.

The first settlers, called the Proprietors, arrived in Norwalk in 1651 and owned 50,000 acres (200 km2) in common.

Governor William Bradford, Dr. Samuel Fuller, Peter Browne and other settlers owned lots along the road.

Each settler at Aigleville owned three separate land lots.

The French settlers dedicated themselves to the cultivation of the sugar cane, and owning plantations which required a significant amount of manpower.

According to Census records from 1767, Ms. Aten wrote in her letter, British settlers in Exeter owned 50 slaves.

Indians, pioneers, and settlers all had owned the Springs in turn, but it had taken a wise gentleman named Elder to prove that here lay the cure for mental as well as physical ills.