Colonies 1763

The Thirteen Colonies

  • Delaware

    Delaware
    Year Founded: 1638
    Founder: Peter Minuit
    Reason: To continue to promote Christianity
    Major Industry: Fishing and lumbering
  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania
    Year Founded: 1682
    Founder: William Penn
    Reason: Quakers wanted religioius freedom and it would be good for trade and profit
    Major Industry: Wheat, corn, cattle, dairy, textiles, papermaking, and shipbuilding
  • New Jersey

    New Jersey
    Year Founded: 1664
    Founder: John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
    Reason: Settlers were promised a representative government and religious freedom
    Major Industry: Ironworking and lumbering
  • Georgia

    Georgia
    Year Founded: 1732
    Founder: James Edward Oglethorpe
    Reason: Was created as a place for debtors in prison could live together in a community and also started a barrier from Spanish expansion in Florida
    Major Industry: Indigo, rice, and sugar
  • Connecticut

    Connecticut
    Year Founded: 1636
    Founder: Thomas Hooker
    Reasoning: Wanted religious and political freedom
    Major Industry: Wheat, corn, and fishing
  • Massachusetts

    Massachusetts
    Year Founded: 1620
    Founder: John Winthrop
    Reason: Wanted religioius freedom
    Major Industry: Fishing, corn, livestock, lumbering, and shipbuilding
  • Maryland

    Maryland
    Year Founded: 1634
    Founder: Lord Baltimore
    Reason: Wanted to make a profit and also create refuge for Roman Catholics
    Major Industry: Shipbuilding, iron works, corn, wheat, rice, and indigo
  • South Carolina

    South Carolina
    Year Founded: 1663
    Founder: English colonists
    Reason: Internal problems in the Carolina colony so split apart and became South Carolina
    Major Industry: Indigo, rice, tobacco, cotton, and cattle
  • New Hampshire

    New Hampshire
    Year Founded: 1623
    Founder: John Mason
    Reason: Wanted to escape religious and economic rules that restricted them
    Major Industry: Potatoes, fishing, textiles, and shipbuilding
  • Virginia

    Virginia
    Year Founded: 1607
    Founder: London Company (John Smith)
    Reason: Hoped to find gold and convert natives to Christianity
    Major Industry: Plantation agriculture
  • New York

    New York
    Year Founded: 1664
    Year Founded: 1636
    Founder: Peter Minuit and Henry Hudson
    Reason: Had useful resources like Hudson River for transportation and fish
    Major Industry: Shipbuilding, iron works, cattle, grain, rice, indigo, and wheat
  • North Carolina

    North Carolina
    Year Founded: 1653
    Founder: Virginia Colonists
    Reason: Issued a royal charter from King Charles II
    Major Industry: Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco)
  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island
    Year Founded: 1636
    Founder: Roger Williams
    Reason: Wanted separation of church and state after disagreement in Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Major Industry: Fishing