migrator

Synonyms:

migrant

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Daniel Boone

an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820)

James Bowie

United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836)

Martha Jane Burke

United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)

Christopher Carson

United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868)

Johnny Appleseed

United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

David Crockett

United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836)

John Endecott

born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665)

Anne Hutchinson

American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)

Peter Minnewit

Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638)

Miles Standish

English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656)

Roger Williams

English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)

Edward Winslow

English colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655)

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departer, goer, leaver

someone who leaves

emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer

someone who leaves one country to settle in another

evacuee

a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place

immigrant

a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

rusher

someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory

colonist, settler

a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country

Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father

one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620

pioneer

one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

sourdough

a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)

homesteader, nester, squatter

someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it

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traveler, traveller

a person who changes location

Type of:

animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement