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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1872

Preserve It.

Few readers can be aware, until they have occasion to test the fact, how much labor is often saved by such a table as the following, the work of one who is now in his grave. If history is poetry, then here is poetry “personified:”

1607, Virginia settled by the English. 1614, New York settled by the Dutch. 1620, Massachusetts settled by the Puritans. 1624, New Jersey settled by the Dutch. 1627, Delaware settled by the Swedes and Finns. 1635, Maryland settled by Irish Catholics. 1636, Connecticut settled by Puritans. 1639, Rhode Island settled by Roger Williams. 1650, North Carolina settled by English. 1670, South Carolina settled by Huguenots. 1682, Georgia settled by General Oglethorpe. 1791, Vermont admitted into Union. 1791, Kentucky admitted into Union. 1796, Tennessee admitted into Union. 1802, Ohio admitted into Union. 1811, Louisiana admitted into Union. 1816, Indiana admitted into Union. 1818, Illinois admitted into Union. 1819, Alabama admitted into Union. 1820, Maine admitted into Union. 1821, Missouri admitted into Union. 1830, Michigan admitted into Union. 1836, Arkansas admitted into Union. 1845, Florida admitted into Union. 1846, Texas admitted into Union. 1847, Iowa admitted into Union. 1848, Wisconsin admitted into Union. 1850, California admitted into Union. 1859, Oregon admitted into Union.