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Delaware major event
http://www.visitdelaware.com/delaware-history-trail/delaware-history/1400 The Lenni Lenape, Native Americans of the Algonkians, settle along the Delaware. -
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New York Colony
http://www.celebrateboston.com/history/new-york.htm"New York, originally called New Netherlands, was so named in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, England, to whom the territory was granted on its conquest from its first settlers, the Dutch.
On March 29th 1691, Colonel Sloughter arrived at New York, in the capacity of king's governor. Nicholson and Bayard, who had been imprisoned by Leisler, were released. -
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Maryland Colony
http://www.celebrateboston.com/history/maryland.htm
The first settlers, about three hundred in number, reached Maryland in March, 1634. Leonard Calvert, a brother of the proprietor, led the colony and became its first acting governor. They settled on a small island in the mouth of the Potomac, paying the Indians for the land in axes, hoes, and cloth. Here they planted the cross and founded a town which they named St. Mary's. The colony was happily founded, and it advanced more in the first six months than Virginia had done in as many years. -
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Delaware Colony
Delaware History
1638 Peter Minuet leads a group of Swedes to the Delaware and establishes Fort Christina (now Wilmington), the first permanent settlement on the Delaware and the beginnings of the New Sweden Colony. -
The Battle of the Great Severn
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071018063446AAlDRvvMarch 25th, 1655, The Battle of the Great Severn was fought in Maryland. it was considered the last battle of the English Civil War. -
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South Carolina Colony
http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/a-brief-history-of-south-carolinaOne of the thirteen original colonies, South Carolina has had a rich and varied history. When Spanish and French explorers arrived in the area in the 16th century, they found a land inhabited by many small tribes of Native Americans, the largest of which were the Cherokees and the Catawbas. The first European attempts at settlement failed, but in 1670 a permanent English settlement was established on the coast near present day Charleston. The colony, named Carolina after King Charles I, was divi -
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North Carolina Colony
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-colonial/1973In 1691, the Proprietors appointed a governor for all of Carolina and a deputy governor for its northern half, and this arrangement provided better administration.
In 1729, seven of the eight Lords Proprietors agreed to sell their shares of North Carolina to King George II, and North Carolina, too, became a royal colony. -
South Carolina major event
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/colonialamerica/p/scarolinacolony.htmOne of the wealthiest colonies.
More Revolutionary War battles were fought in this colony than any other colonies. -
North Carolina important event
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/nctimeln.htm(1729) North Carolina became royal English colony -
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Georgia Colony
Colony Of GeorgiaA Brief History"Georgia received it name, in 1732, in honor of George II, King of England.
The territory of Georgia was originally included in the Carolina patent granted to Lord Clarendon and his associates, but it was a region wild and unoccupied, except by aboriginal tribes at the time the proprietors surrendered their interest in it to the crown in 1729. The king could therefore choose to re-grant the territory to whom be pleased. But, at the same time, Spain laid claim to it, claiming it as a part of Flo -
Plantation settlement in Georgia
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/colonialamerica/p/georgiacolony.htmIn 1733, a group of settlers joined Oglethorpe to found Savannah, Georgia.
Georgia began with the intention to have little landholding and no slavery. However, when it became a royal colony in 1752, plantations and slavey became a major part of the Georgian economy.
Georgia was in the first group of states to ratify the new Constitution after the Revolutionary War ended. -
New York / Albany Congress
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/colonialamerica/p/newyorkcolony.htmThe Albany Congress occurred at Albany, New York in 1754 to help unite the colonies for defense against the Iroquois Confederacy.
