#colonist__settler  a person who settle in a new colony or moves into new country
  supertype:  migrant__migrator  traveler who moves from one region or country to another
  instance:  John_Endecott  Anne_Hutchinson  Peter_Minuit  Miles_Standish  Roger_Williams  Edward_Winslow
  subtype:  Pilgrim  one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
  subtype:  pioneer  one the first colonists or settler in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"
     subtype:  bushman  a dweller in the Australian bush country
     subtype:  frontiersman__backwoodsman__mountain_man  a man who lives on the frontier
        instance:  Daniel_Boone__Boone  Christopher_Carson__Carson__Kit_Carson  David_Crockett__Crockett__Davy_Crockett
     subtype:  frontierswoman  a woman who lives on the frontier
        instance:  Martha_Jane_Burk__Burk__Burke__Martha_Jane_Burke__Calamity_Jane
     instance:  James_Bowie__Bowie  John_Chapman__Chapman__Johnny_Appleseed
  subtype:  sourdough.colonist  a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)
  subtype:  homesteader__squatter__nester  someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to to it

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