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Virginia
Jamestown, Virginia was founded in 1607. It was the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Massachusetts
The Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony around present day Salem and Boston in the 1630s.The Puritans founded their colony so the could worship as they chose. -
Maryland
Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore and others, in 1634. The first settlers included both Catholics and Protestants. They grow tobacco and harvested the sea life of Chesapeake Bay . -
Connecticut
Connecticut was founded by Thomas Hooker, a minister. He left Massachusetts with about 100 followers in 1663 and settled in what is today Connecticut. -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams for religious freedom, in 1636.Williams believed the Puritans should split entirely from the Church of England. -
Delaware
Delaware was founded by Peter Minuit in 1638.People from Sweden were the first European settlers in Delaware. -
New Hampshire
In 1638, John Wheelwright led a group of dissidents from Massachusetts to found the town of Exeter in New Hampshire. He was forced to leave Massachusetts, because he agreed with some of Anne Hutchinson's views. -
North Carolina
North Carolina was founded by Virginia colonists in 1653. -
South Carolina
South Carolina was founded by eight English nobles with a Royal Charter from King Charles II, in 1663. King Charles wanted to own more land to become more powerful, and the people wanted religious freedom. -
New Jersey
In 1664, the Duke of York gave land between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to two friends , John Berkeley and George Carteret. They named the colony New Jersey, after the Isle of Jersey in England. -
New York
New York was originally owned by the Dutch and called New Netherland. in 1664, English took over and renamed it New York , after the Duke of York, brother of King Charles I. The reason the land was founded was for a better life. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, in1682. It was founded for freedom of religious and to make money. Penn and the Quakers thought that everyone should be treated equal. -
Georgia
Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe, in 1732. He wanted to give debtors a chance to have a fresh start. At first slavery was forbidden, when colonists saw the success of plantation farmers in South Carolina they complained, the rules changed to allow large plantations and slave labor the colony grew quickly after that.
