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Due to the Virginia Company of England, in honor of Elizabeth I Jamestown was founded. -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, a religious group in England. Their goal was to find religious freedom in this new colony and escape persecution in England. -
Captain John Mason is credited with the creation of the colony of New Hampshire which started off as a fishing colony. -
Cecilius Calvert II founded the colony of Mayland for people to have religious freedom. -
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for his religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. -
It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation, and the English permanently gained after struggles with the Dutch. -
William Penn founded Delaware which in 1681 became part of Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware. -
King Charles II, gave a group of eight noblemen a large tract of land to the south of the Virginia colony in 1663. -
Carolina was a Proprietary colony established by England's King Charles II through the charter of 24 Mar. 1663. -
On June 24, 1664, James, Duke of York, granted Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, ownership of a swath of land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers. -
This Oyster Island was granted to Captain Robert Needham by the colonial Governor of New York, Richard Nicholls. -
English Quaker William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681, when King Charles II granted him a charter for over 45,000 square miles of land.