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Captain John Smith founded Virginia in on May 14 1607.Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth the 1 , because she was called the virgin Queen. -
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Massachusetts is part of the new England colonies -
founded in 1623, by Captain John Mason in the England Colony. -
New York is part of the Middle colony, founded in 1624. -
Rhode island is the smallest of the 13 colonies. -
Delaware was part of the middle colony. -
est. as one of the British colonies in 1664 -
William Penn got this land from King Charles ll from a prior loan. He was going to call it Sylvania which means woods.But later called it Pennsylvania. -
Founded in 1732 by James Oglethorpe.