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On May 14, 1607, James Town was founded in Virginia. They named it after their King, James I. It was the first successful colony. -
In 1620 Plymouth was founded in Massachusetts by English settlers. They arrived on the Mayflower, which they used to establish the rules for governing the new colony. It is one of the first successful British colonies in North America -
In 1623 Dover Point was founded in New Hampshire.
Dover Point is the oldest continuous settlement in New Hampshire and the seventh oldest in the United States. It was New Hampshire's first permanent European settlement. -
Saint Marry was founded on March 25, 1634, at St. Clement's Island in southern Maryland. It is commemorated by the state that each year on that day is Maryland Day.This was the site of the first Catholic mass in the Colonies, with Father Andrew White leading the service. -
On March 3, 1636, Connecticut River Colony was founded. It was founded in Connecticut. They were the first colony to declare independence from Great Britain. A Puritan named Minister Thomas Hooker is recognized as the founder of Connecticut. -
In 1636 Providence Plantations was founded in Rhode Island by Roger Williams. He was banned from the Massachusetts colony for his advocacy of religious tolerance and separation of church and state. -
In March 1638, the Swedish colony of New Sweden was established as the first permanent European settlement in Delaware. It was a part of the Middle Colonies and, was known as a breadbasket colony because of its wheat crops. -
On March 24, 1663, Kind Charles II a charter for land in America to the Lords Proprietors, who were eight of his closest supporters during the Restoration of 1660. Since a permanent English settlement in the new world was important, the king gave broad powers to the proprietors. The colony's name was Roanoke, it was known to be the lost colony. -
Even though it was founded in 1660 by the Dutch. In 1664 the Dutch lost New Netherlands when the British took control of the land and added it to their colonies. The land was officially named New Jersey after the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel. -
It was founded in 1624 by the Dutch West Indian Company. They founded it in New York. New Amsterdam was the capital of New Netherlands, a Dutch colony that stretched along the Atlantic Ocean between British colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia. The first settlers arrived in 1624 and quickly established Fort Orange, up the Hudson River near modern Albany, New York, and Fort Amsterdam. -
The first European attempts at settlement failed but in 1670 a permanent English settlement was established on the coast near present-day Charleston. The colony was named Carolina after King Charles I, it was divided into South and North Carolina in 1710. -
The King signed the Charter of Pennsylvania on March 4, 1681, and it was officially proclaimed on April 3. The King named the new colony Pennsylvania in honor of William Penn's father. -
Georgia's colonial experience was very different from that of the other British colonies in North America. Established in 1731, with settlement in Savannah in 1733, Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded,