Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Newcomen> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 47 of
47
with 100 items per page.
- John_Newcomen abstract "John Newcomen was murdered by Mayflower passenger John Billington in 1630, making him the first white settler murdered by another white settler in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.There are two principal recordings of the event written in the 17th century. The first is from Governor William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation."This year John Billington the elder (one that came over with the first) was arraigned; and both by grand, and petty jury found guilty of willful murder; by plain and notorious evidence. And was for the same accordingly executed. This as it was the first execution amongst them, so was it a matter of great sadness unto them; they used all due means about his trial, and took the advice of Mr. Winthrop, and other the ablest gentlemen in the Bay of Massachusetts, that were then newly come over, who concurred with them that he ought to die, and the land be purged from blood. He and some of his, had been often punished for miscarriages before, being one of the profanest families amongst them; ... His fact was, that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomen (about a former quarrel) and shot him with a gun, whereof he died."The second account comes from William Hubbard's A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX (17th-century manuscript first published in 1815)."So when this wilderness began first to be peopled by the English where there was but one poor town, another Cain was found therein, who maliciously slew his neighbor in the field, as he accidentally met him, as he himself was going to shoot deer. The poor fellow perceiving the intent of this Billington, his mortal enemy, sheltered himself behind trees as well as he could for a while; but the other, not being so ill a marksman as to miss his aim, made a shot at them, and struck him on the shoulder, with which he died soon after. The murtherer expected that either for want of power to execute for capital offenses, or for want of people to increase the plantation, he should have his life spared; but justice otherwise determined."Thomas Morton, writing in New English Canaan (1637), also makes a brief reference to the event, nicknaming John Billington the "Old Woodman", and making a punning reference to Newcomen:"Old Woodman ... was choked at Plymouth after he had played the unhappy marksman when he was pursued by a careless fellow that was new come into the land"No further information about Newcomen's family is known for certain. The name "New comin" may have been a reference to his status as a newcomer to the Plymouth rather than a surname.".
- John_Newcomen deathDate "1630".
- John_Newcomen deathYear "1630".
- John_Newcomen wikiPageExternalLink display.php?docs=bradford_history.xml&action=show.
- John_Newcomen wikiPageID "7124408".
- John_Newcomen wikiPageRevisionID "581941863".
- John_Newcomen dateOfDeath "1630".
- John_Newcomen hasPhotoCollection John_Newcomen.
- John_Newcomen name "Newcomen, John".
- John_Newcomen subject Category:1610s_births.
- John_Newcomen subject Category:1630_crimes.
- John_Newcomen subject Category:1630_deaths.
- John_Newcomen subject Category:Deaths_by_firearm_in_Massachusetts.
- John_Newcomen subject Category:People_from_Plymouth,_Massachusetts.
- John_Newcomen subject Category:People_murdered_in_Massachusetts.
- John_Newcomen type CausalAgent100007347.
- John_Newcomen type LivingThing100004258.
- John_Newcomen type Object100002684.
- John_Newcomen type Organism100004475.
- John_Newcomen type PeopleFromPlymouth,Massachusetts.
- John_Newcomen type PeopleMurderedInMassachusetts.
- John_Newcomen type Person100007846.
- John_Newcomen type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- John_Newcomen type Whole100003553.
- John_Newcomen type YagoLegalActor.
- John_Newcomen type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- John_Newcomen type Agent.
- John_Newcomen type Person.
- John_Newcomen type Person.
- John_Newcomen type Q215627.
- John_Newcomen type Q5.
- John_Newcomen type Agent.
- John_Newcomen type NaturalPerson.
- John_Newcomen type Thing.
- John_Newcomen type Person.
- John_Newcomen comment "John Newcomen was murdered by Mayflower passenger John Billington in 1630, making him the first white settler murdered by another white settler in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.There are two principal recordings of the event written in the 17th century.".
- John_Newcomen label "John Newcomen".
- John_Newcomen sameAs m.0h5ddb.
- John_Newcomen sameAs Q6250334.
- John_Newcomen sameAs Q6250334.
- John_Newcomen sameAs John_Newcomen.
- John_Newcomen wasDerivedFrom John_Newcomen?oldid=581941863.
- John_Newcomen givenName "John".
- John_Newcomen isPrimaryTopicOf John_Newcomen.
- John_Newcomen name "John Newcomen".
- John_Newcomen name "Newcomen, John".
- John_Newcomen surname "Newcomen".