Puritans

Colonial Events Timeline Project by Sa'myia Johnson

  • Virginia 1607

    Virginia 1607
    Settlers of England sailed to a mysterious land in which they named Virginia after Queen Elizabeth 1.
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    Virginia

    Some people got killed for leaving Jamestown.
  • Massachusetts 1620

    Massachusetts 1620
    The pilgrims established their settlement, in what they had nicknamed at the time Plymouth rock in 1620.
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    Massachusetts

    A Native American named Wampanoag sailed to North America first landing near cape cod.
  • New York

    New York
    Henry Hudson sighted Manhattan island before sailing up the Hudson river in 1626.
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    New York

    The headright system was made by the London people.
  • Maryland

    Maryland
    After Calvert died in April 1632 the charter for the Maryland colony was granted.
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    Maryland

    Thomas left Maryland due to lots of work.
  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island
    Roger wiliams settled on land granted to him by the Narragansett.
  • Connecticut

    Connecticut
    The Governor John Haynes led 100 people to Hartford.
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    Rhode Island

    Roger was a good man who did not want wrong to come onto him.
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    Connecticut

    John Winthrop also Governed the colony of Connecticut for 10 years starting in 1698.
  • Delaware

    Delaware
    Peter Minuit found Delaware. It was named after the Delaware river.
  • New Hampshire

    New Hampshire
    John Walter found New Hampshire to grant land.
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    Delaware

    Delaware was not the colony that people would go to all the time but then that changed.
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    New Hampshire

  • North Carolina

    North Carolina
    The earliest known permanent settler in the North Carolina colony was Nathaniel Batts who settled there in 1653.
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    North Carolina

    North Carolina joined with the other colony's.
  • South carolina

    South carolina
    The English crown granted land to eight proprietors of what became the colony.
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    South Carolina

    In 1665 a second permanent settlement was effected near the mouth of the Clarendon or Cape Cod Fear River by Emigrants from the Island of Barbados.