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The colony of Jamestown
the first colony at Jamestown Virginia refer to as Virginia colony -
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Matthew's timespan
13 colony's -
the starving time
period in Jamestown refer to as the starving time -
king Thomas Dale
The rule of Sir Thomas Dale and Good Order in Virginia -
the London company
The Headright System was set up by the London company in 1618 that gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia, or paid the way for someone else -
The Mayflower
1620 - The Pilgrims establish their own government, the basis of which was the Mayflower Compact, which they drafted on their journey to the New World on the Mayflower -
The Pilgrim Fathers, or Pilgrims, founded the second colony of the Plymouth Settlement in New England in 1620,
located in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. The Mayflower Compact was a legal document written by the Pilgrims to specify basic laws and social rules for their new colony. In 1624, Virginia was made a royal colony. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
- refer to Massachusetts Colony. The Pilgrims, the founders of Plymouth, arrived in 1620. John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the "Father of English Colonization in North America" had received land in northern New England which became the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Mason eventually formed New Hampshire and the land of Sir Ferdinando Gorges led to Maine.
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New Netherlands, which became New York, was settled by the Dutch
- refer to Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Minuit. In 1664, King Charles II granted New Netherland to his brother James, Duke of York, who took a fleet to the area. The Dutch surrendered New Netherlands without a fight and it was renamed New York
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Royal colony
1624 Virginia was made a royal colony -
Puritans led by John Winthrop
formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and many Puritans continued to settle in the areas around Boston.
