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Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607 by 104 settlers who came to Jamestown by three ships. The three ships were called Susan Constant, the Discovery and the Godspeed. -
New York was founded by the Dutch in sixteen twenty four. -
Then in 1636, Roger Williams, a man who’d been banished from the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs founded the Rhode Island colony. -
New Hampshire was first settled by Europeans at Odiorne's Point in Rye by a group of fishermen from England, under David Thompson in 1623. -
South Carolina, part of the original Province of Carolina , was founded in 1663 when King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as the Lords Proprietors. At the time, the province included both North Carolina and South Carolina. North and South Carolina became separate royal colonies in 1729. -
In 1632, King Charles I of England granted a charter to George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, yielding him proprietary rights to a region east of the Potomac River. -
The Delaware Colony was founded in 1638 by Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company. Named after the Delaware River whose name Sir Thomas. -
Pennsylvania was named after a person named William Penn. Pennsylvania was founded on December 12, 1787. -
The colonial history of New Jersey started after Henry Hudson sailed through Newark Bay in 1609. Although Hudson was British, he worked for the Netherlands, so he claimed the land for the Dutch. It was called New Netherlands . Small trading colonies sprang up where the present towns of Hoboken and Jersey City are located -
The British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733. Georgia was named after King George ll. -
The founding of the Connecticut Colony is often credited to Governor John Haynes and Puritan minister Thomas Hooker. -
A group of settlers led by William Pynchon founded Springfield, Massachusetts. Massachusetts was fully founded in 1788. -
North Carolina is named after King Charles I of England, who first formed the English colony. It would become a royal colony of the British Empire in 1729.