Thank you all for your well wishes yesterday, I feel much better after a day of rest.Recently on a walk through the borough of Southwark I came across America Street. I felt certain there would be an interesting history associated with it. I can't find anything. The best I can offer is the the nearby Cathedral has close ties with America. John Havard a parishioner lost most of his family members during the Southwark plague, he and his wife then left for Massachusetts in 1637. Unfortunately John died a year later of consumption.
There are also connections with the cathedral of settlers who went to Connecticut and in typical colonist fashion appropriated land from the indigenous tribes.
A petition was presented to Queen Anne who ruled in favour of the indigenous people. this ruling was ignored.
In 1735 a group comprising both indigenous and settlers came to London to petition King George II to restore their lands. Disaster struck and the entire party died of smallpox before meeting the King. The lands remained with the settlers.
