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Jamestown is founded
The Virginia Company made the colony of Jamestown. -
Massachusetts
It was founded by the Puritans. -
New Hampshire
The month and day when it was founded were not provided -
Maryland
Cecilious Calvert founded the Maryland colony -
Rhode Island was founded
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for his advocacy of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. -
Connecticut was founded
It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation, and the English permanently gained control of the region in 1637 after struggles with the Dutch. -
Delaware was founded
William Penn is the father of representative government in Delaware. In 1681 this idealistic English Quaker became the proprietor of two colonies in America: Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware. -
North Carolina was founded
Carolina was a Proprietary colony established by England's King Charles II through the charter of 24 Mar. 1663 that granted eight Lords Proprietors all of the land on the North American continent between the latitudes of 31° and 36° north, extending west to the South Seas (Pacific Ocean). -
South Carolina was founded
In 1665 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, and seven other members of the British nobility received a charter from King Charles II to establish the colony of Carolina (named for the king) in a vast territory between latitudes 29° and 36°30′ N and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. -
New York was established
The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624 and established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. In 1664, the English took control of the area and renamed it New York. -
New Jersey was founded
James, Duke of York, granted Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, ownership of a swath of land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers. -
Pennsylvania was founded
The King signed the Charter of Pennsylvania on March 4, 1681, and it was officially proclaimed on April 2. The King named the new colony in honor of William Penn's father.