'PLL' star Shay Mitchell on her sexuality: 'I'm never going to label myself'. While the televised version of Emily Fields identifies as a lesbian, Pretty Little Liars actress Shay Mitchell isn't putting a label on her sexuality.
The first English colony in North America was the Colony of Roanoke, founded in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh, in present-day North Carolina, under the blessing of Queen Elizabeth I. This was an unsuccessful settlement, also called the Lost Colony..he first permanently settled European colony on continental North America was Veracruz, Mexico, founded in 1519 by the Spanish. St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the continental U.S., settled in 1565, also by the Spanish.
What colony was founded as a haven for a religious group known as the Quakers? Pennsylvania was founded as a state of religious freedom by the  Quakers. William Penn, who founded the colony on March 4, 1681, was  the leader of this movement. 10 people found this useful.