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13 Colonys time line

By jstorm4
  • Period: Jan 1, 1580 to

    time line

  • Period: Jan 1, 1580 to

    time line

  • Colonists settle at Roanoke,Virginia

    Roanoke was chartered by Sir Walter Raleigh. The first group that had settled in 1585, left the island to go back to island.
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    Settling the 13 American Colonies

  • Roanoke colony is discovered to be abandoned

    Roanoke colony is discovered to be abandoned

    Nobody knows for sure what happened to the men, women, and children of the colony.
  • Virginia Company of London settles Jamestown

    Virginia Company of London settles Jamestown

    Jamestown colony was located at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It is the 1st permenent English settlement in North America.

  • John Rolfe introduces tobacco to English colonists

    Tobacco was very valuable back then, because only Spain had tobacco seeds before this time.
  • Pilgrims settle ay Plymouth, Massachusetts

    Pilgrims settle ay Plymouth, Massachusetts

    Only about 35 passengers on the Mayflower were actually considered to be Pilgrims or seperartists from the Church of England seeking religious freedom.

  • Massachusettes Bay Company settles at Boston

    Puritans left the Church of England for religious freedom.

  • The English conquere New Netherlands

    The New Netherlands are renamed New York after the Duke of York.

  • Colonists start arriving in the Carolinas

  • King Charles gives land to William Penn to settle debt

    King Charles gives land to William Penn to settle debt

    William Penn founds the colony of Pennsylvania. Even though he had been given the land, he still paid Native Americans for it.

  • Georgia was founded for poor people and debtors

    In England at the time, people would be put in jail if they poor and owed money. James Oglethorpe offered freedom and a new life.