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colonies by year

By tanner2017

  • Virgina founded

    Jamestown was the first city founded the same year as the state. They were both founded by a group calling themselves the Virginia Company.

  • Massachusetts

    This state is named after an Algonquian tribe and it means "At the Great Hill"

  • New Hampshire founded

    This state was named after the English county of Hampshire where Captain John Mason was raised. There was only one religion, the Puritans and no religious freedom

  • Maryland founded

    This state was known for its religious freedom for Catholics. It was also a tobacco growing state for its main commodity crop.

  • Connecticut

    This state was settled by Dutch fur traders in 1614. The English settlers arrived in 1663.

  • Rhode Island

    Roger Williams purchased (what would become RI) from the Narragansett Indians and founded the first permanent white settlement in Providence.

  • North Carolina founded

    Charles II gave eight loyal supporters the land that would be divided into three districts. One would later become South Carolina.

  • South Carolina

    SC was led by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury after being granted the land by Charles II.

  • New York

    New York was conquered by the English in 1664 from the Dutch without fight. It was brought into the colonies under English rule.

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