Verrazzano next sails along Long Island and…

May 1524 CE

Verrazzano next sails along Long Island and enters Narragansett Bay, where he receives a delegation of Wampanoag and Narragansett people.

The words "Norman villa" are found on the 1527 map by Visconte Maggiolo identifying the site.

The historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote "this occurs at Angouleme (New York) rather than Refugio (Newport).

It was probably intended to compliment one of Verrazzano's noble friends.

There are several places called "Normanville" in Normandy, France.

The main one is located near Fécamp and another important one near Evreux, which would naturally be it.

West of it, conjecturally on the Delaware or New Jersey coast, is a Longa Villa, which Verrazzano certainly named after Francois d’Orleans, duc de Longueville".

Verrazano remarks that nearby Block Island appears similar to the Mediterranean island of Rhodes.

He stays here for two weeks, then moves northwards, …

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Francis I of France View → Giovanni da Verrazzano View →

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Christians, Roman Catholic View → France, (Valois) Kingdom of View → Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) View → Narragansett people (Amerind tribe) View → Wampanoag (Amerind tribe) View → Mohegan people (Amerind tribe) View → Niantic people (Amerind tribe) View → Nipmuc (Amerind tribe) View →

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