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Jamestown, Virginia
Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607
Jamestown served as the capitol of the colony for 83 years, from 1616 to 1699 -
New Jersey (month and day unknown)
The Province of New Jersey was one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1776. -
Massachusetts (month and day unknown)
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628-1691) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century in and around the broad opening of Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost predecessor colony of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The lands of the settlement were located in central New England in what is now Massachusetts. -
Maryland (month and day unknown)
Maryland was the 7th of the original 13 colonies to become a state April 28th, 1788.
Trade included tobacco, rice, indigo (dye), lumber, furs, and farm products. -
Connecticut
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut was originally known as the River Colony, an English colony located in North America that became the U.S. state of Connecticut.
It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation. -
Rhode Island (month and day unknown)
The land that became the English Colony was first home to the Narragansett Indians, which led to the name of the modern town of Narragansett, showing respect to the Narragansett and Nipmuc peoples. -
South Carolina (month and day unknown)
The Province of South Carolina was separated from the Province of North Carolina in 1712.
Its capital city of Charleston became a major port for traffic on the Atlantic Ocean, and South Carolina developed indigo, rice and Sea Island cotton as commodity crop exports, making it one of the most prosperous of the colonies. -
New York (month and day unknown)
The Province of New York (1664–1776) was a British crown colony that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania.
The territory of western New York was Iroquois land, also disputed between the English colonies and New France, and that of Vermont was disputed with the Province of New Hampshire. -
Delaware (month and day unknown)
In the early 17th century the area was inhabited by Lenape and possibly the Assateague Tribes of Native Americans. William Penn was given the deed to what was then called "the Lower Counties on the Delaware by the Duke of York. -
Pennsylvania
The Province of Pennsylvania,[citation needed] also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II. -
North Carolina (month and day unknown)
The Province of North Carolina was originally part of the Province of Carolina, which was chartered by eight Lords Proprietor.
The province later became the U.S. states of North Carolina and Tennessee, and parts of the province combined with other territory to form the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. -
New Hampshire
The Province of New Hampshire was a colony of England and later of Great Britain.
The name was first given in 1629 to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America. It was formally organized as an English royal colony on October 7, 1691, during the period of English colonization. -
Georgia
The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern colonies in British America.
It was the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States.
