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Walter Raleigh founded the first English colony and named it Virginia
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John Smith founded Virginia and others at Jamestown
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William penn was arrested because he was practicing being a Quaker.
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Peter Minuit and others founded new york and others on manhattan island
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Thomas Hooker founded connecticut and other puritans that lived on massachusetts nay
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Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams and others at providians
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New York, colony given by duke of york by his brother King Charles the second after the land was taken by the dutch
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New Jersey by a English colony
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Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn and others at philadelphia
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delaware was the first of the original 13 colony to become a state and the first colonial state