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One of the first Southern Colonies was Virgina. Virgina chartered in 1606 but settled in 1607. -
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. British men and boys came to start the settlement.
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The Massachusettes Colony was founded in 1620, by the Puritains -
The New Hampshire colony was founded in 1623 by John Wheelwright -
The Maryland Colony was founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore -
The Rhode Island Colony was one of the 13 Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. The colony started in 1636 and established Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State -
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England that later became Connecticut. It was established in 1636. -
The Delaware Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. -
North Carolina was first settled in 1587. 121 settlers led by John White landed on present-day Roanoke Island on July 22, 1587. It was the first English settlement in the New World.
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South Carolina is one of the 13 original colonies and it lies on the southern Eastern Seaboard of the United States. The colony, named Carolina after King Charles I, was divided in 1710 into South Carolina and North Carolina -
The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624 and established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. In 1664, the English took control of the area and renamed it New York. -
The Georgia colony was the last colony in the 13 colonies, founded by James Edward Oglethorpe