13 colonies By 545839@kernhigh.org 1450 new york electronic billboards 1524 new Jersey Verrazano explores the Jersey coast 1607 virgina 1620 massachusetts 1620 virgina is tobacco and many who people live of tobacco 1620 massachusetts sailed to North America on the Mayflower 1622 new hampshirs King James I granted region between Salem and Merrimac Rivers to John Mason 1626 new york 1627 delaware First settlement by the Swedes. 1634 maryland 1636 connecticut 1636 rhode island 1638 new hampshirs 1638 Delaware 1638 Rhode island The Portsmouth compact was signed 1638 connecticut New Haven Colony established by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton 1653 North Carolina 1663 South carolina 1664 new Jersey 1681 pennsylvania 1691 North Carolina The area assumed the name of North Carolina 1700 South carolina Hurricane struck Charleston, 98 killed 1732 georgia 1732 georgia To view the Georgia Charter, see the Georgia Archives 1778 pennsylvania Tom Wolf Doing a Good Job? 1813 maryland First steamboat, the Chesapeake, appeared in Chesapeake Bay; British raided Havre de Grace.