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Virginia
The first colony was founded in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, 104 English men and boys came to North America to begin their settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, named after their king, James I. This became the first English settlement permanently in North America. -
Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, a religious group in England. They founded their colony to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas -
New Hampshire
New Hampshire was the third of the 13 colonies, founded in 1623. From the beginning, New Hampshire was planned to be a colony.
The land was given to John Mason, and he decided to make a colony with it. He live in Hampshire county in England, which is why the colony was named New Hampshire. He invested a lot of money in this land, making cities and towns. Sadly he never saw it, due to his death in 1635. -
Maryland
The Maryland Colony's first settlement was St. Mary's City, which was built along the Chesapeake Bay. It was the first settlement in the New World to guarantee religious freedom for all Trinitarian Christians -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded the first permanent white settlement in Rhode Island at Providence in 1636 on land purchased from the Narragansett Indians. Forced to flee Massachusetts because of persecution, Williams established a policy of religious and political freedom in his new settlement. -
Connecticut
The Province of Connecticut, originally known as the River Province, was an English colony located in North America that later became part of the United States as the State of Connecticut. The province was founded on March 3, 1636 as a settlement where Puritans congregated. Wikipedia -
Delaware
Delaware was originally a part of New Sweden, which also included Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania. Later the king of England gained control over the portion east of the Delaware river and named it Delaware. -
New York
New York played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution. Between 1892 and 1954, millions of immigrants arrived in New York Harbor and passed through Ellis Island on their journey to becoming U.S citizens. The New York Colony declared its independence on July 9th, 1776. On April 20th, 1777 the New York Colony adopted its constitution. -
New Jersey
The Province of New Jersey was one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1783. The province had originally been settled by Europeans as part of New Netherland but came under English rule after the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, becoming a proprietary colony. -
Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681. Penn had left the Church of England to become a Quaker. He built the colony so people could worship in their own way and share in the government. In 1682 Penn was given another grant of land south of Pennsylvania. It became the colony of Delaware. -
South and North Carolina
Pioneer from Virginia sold forest products to shipbuilders in England. In 1163 the king og Englandnamed this region Carolina. The king later divided the region into two royal colonies. In 1721 he created SouthCarolina. And in 1729 he created North Carolina. -
Georgia
Georgia was the last of the 13 colonies. It was founded in 1732, long after the others. James Oglethorpe asked the king for a land charter and was granted an unpopulated portion of land from the Carolina charter called Georgia after King George. Oglethorpe had two motives for making this colony. One was for people to start anew after serving time in jail, the other, to serve as a military base to defend against the Spanish.