Credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Painted in 1670, this rare painting is one of only about 35 paintings that exist today that reflect the New England settlement after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. Year: 1670
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Like the other seventeenth-century British colonies, Virginia aspired to convert the native populations. The Virginia Company’s instructions to its governors required them to make conversion one of their objectives. The most famous early convert was Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan, head of the Powhatan Confederacy. Pocahontas was baptized by…