Pfizer Files Lawsuit Against Poland for Declining COVID-19 Vaccines
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One thing you should know about your Polish heritage. Polish people were brought here to the Americas BEFORE the Mayflower, as workers to prepare the original colonies.
The Polish craftsmen in the Jamestown Colony first arrived in 1608 with Captain John Smith to serve in essential industries in the New World. They are generally considered the first Polish Americans. Polish and Dutch craftsmen could be had for low wages (or worked as indentured servants) to help clear the land, begin setting up essential business like blacksmithing, glass making, constructing buildings, etc... in preparation for the colony.
Keep in mind that the Mayflower set sail on 16th September 1620 from Plymouth, UK, to voyage to America, a full 12-years AFTER the Polish craftsmen arrived.
Polish Settlers at Early Jamestown
That's incredible! Thanks for your comment, fren
Wow. Thanks for sharing. I had no idea!
Definitely looking into this to learn more.
If you read the history of the early colonies, it becomes clear that the Virginia Company, the Massachusetts Bay Company and other early settler groups to the colonies were NOT disorganized fools. They were clearly very organized and planned ahead.
People think of the Mayflower Compact pilgrims as having stepped off the boat onto barren shores. Not really. The organizations planned years in advance. They knew that people arriving with their families to basically NOTHING would never survive.
That's why the Jamestown Colony planned 12-14 years in advance. The earliest settlers were workers. They came to clear land for the colony, to be well-diggers, glass makers, home builders, blacksmiths, etc... . You read that the Poles were brought in for their knowledge of making pitch and tar and other materials needed for construction. Well... guess what goes into making buildings and roofs. The colony needed to have weather resistant buildings. The Polish workers were also essential in providing protection for the early colony.
The Massachusetts Bay Company could have hired workers from Ireland, England or France, but it would be very difficult to convince people to spend 10-12 years living in the wilderness in hostile terrain and building a town that might someday be occupied by others.
It wasn't a very fun experience. In 1609-1610 time frame, 400 new people arrived in Jamestown... all just in time for them to experience the infamous “starving time”, when approximately 75% of Jamestown’s population perished due to sickness and disease. The Polish immigrants were there through that... and survived.
Anyway, if anyone has a claim to being an early American descendant (and brags about ancestors coming over on the Mayflower)... put this one right back on them.
My mom's side came over on the Mayflower, but she also had relatives that were here much earlier, who had settled in the "Parker Islands". I have to go back to the chart my uncle put together for the exact date. I had not known that there were settlers here many years before.
I have an ancestor who was with Champlain on his 2nd voyage to Quebec, Canada in 1606.
Louis Hebert set sail for "New France" Quebec in 1606 on the "Jonas". After less than a year, Louis Hebert and the crew headed back to Paris.
Louis and his wife, Marie Rollet married in Paris in June 1602. They had 3 children. Louis always remembered the rugged beauty of Quebec wilderness. In 1617, Louis, Marie and their three kids sailed back to "New France" to live. They became a premier family and major landowners in Quebec. Up to 1632, the Hebert House on the brow of the cliff was the only private dwelling in Quebec. Farther up the edge was Champlain's Little Wooden Fort, and below it on the shore was the small Recollet Chapel. The only other buildings in the settlement were the Convent of Recollet and Jesuit Orders on the St. Charles River a mile away byond dense woods. That was 3 years before the Mayflower (1620) sailed.