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First Settlement in the Bahamas.
In 1648, a group of dissident English Puritans (known as the "Eleutheran
Adventurers") arrived here in their quest for religious freedom.
Although the adventurers gave the island its name, the island didn’t
give much back, and the settlers experienced food shortages, a lack of
proper supplies and internal strife that split the group into separate
communities along Governor’s Harbor and Preacher’s Cave in Eleuthera.
Seeking peace, the Eleutheran’s leader, Captain William Sayles, set sail
for the American colonies and succeeded in obtaining survival supplies
from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then returned to the struggling
outpost. To better guard against marauding Spanish troops in the area,
another settlement was then established on the nearby -- and more easily
defended -- Harbor Island.
The History of the Bahamas.
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