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(contracted; show full)or, then credit would go to [[Christopher Columbus]] who landed in [[Puerto Rico]] on his [[Columbus's second voyage|1493 voyage]]. Spanish set up the first settlements in Florida and New Mexico such as [[St. Augustine, Florida|Saint Augustine]]<ref name="Saint Augustine">{{cite web |title=St. Augustine Florida, The Nation's Oldest City |url=http://staugustine.com/history/nations-oldest-city |website=staugustine.com |language=en}}</ref> and [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]].
 The marriage between Luisa de Abrego, a free black domestic servant from Seville and Miguel Rodríguez, a white segovian conquistador in 1565 in St. Augustine (Spanish Florida), is the first known and recorded Christian marriage anywhere in the continental United States.<ref>{{cite|url=http://laflorida.org/florida-stories/|title=Luisa de Abrego: Marriage, Bigamy, and the Spanish Inquisition|publisher=http://laflorida.org|author=J. Michael Francis, PhD}}</ref> The French established their own as well along the [[Mississippi River]]. Successful [[English overseas possessions|English settlement]] on the eastern coast of North America began with the [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia Colony]] in 1607 at [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] and the [[Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)|Pilgrims']] [[Plymouth Colony]] in 1620. Many settlers were [[English Dissenters|dissenting Christian groups]] who came seeking [[freedom of religion|religious freedom]]. The continent's fir(contracted; show full)[[Category:G7 nations]]
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