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Eleuthera

Eleuthera is a long, narrow island in the Bahamas, east of New Providence. In 1648 Puritan settlers from Bermuda under William Sayle, the Eleutheran Adventurers, founded the first English settlement in the Bahamas there, naming it after the Greek word for freedom. It later became known for pineapple farming and tourism.

Eleuthera
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Colony of the Bahamas

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