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Roanoke colony or the lost colony as some people say. Hundreds of people are sent to help the colonists at Roanoke Island, but they never arrived. Roanoke is also seen as the lost colony.
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Hundreds of settlers from England land with their ships Godspeed, Susan Constant and Discovery land in Chesapeake bay near Jamestown.
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John Smith and the London Company found the Virgina colony at Jamestown, the 1st of thirteen orignal american colonies.
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Massachusetts Bay colony [ Plymouth ] is established as the 2nd colony.
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The Mayflower of English Separatists lands in Plymouth on November 11.
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New Hampshire becomes the 3rd colony.
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Virgina becomes a royal colony of England.
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New Amesterdam is settled which later becomes New York.
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Maryland becomes the 4th colony.
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Providence and Portsmouth joins together and form the 5th colony which is Rhode Island.
