-
The first colony was founed
The first colony was founded in 1607. Many of the people who settled in the New World came to escape religious persecution. The Pilgrims, founders of Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived in 1620. -
james town was founed
The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, and begin a settlement. They established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America. -
Baby oceanus Hopkins was born the mayflower
Oceanus Hopkins (1620—c.1626) was the only child born on the Mayflower .Oceanus was born to Stephen Hopkins and his wife, Elizabeth Hopkins sometime between the boarding and arrival dates of September 6 and November 9, 1620. He died at about age six, certainly before the 1627 Division of Land. The location of his grave is unknown. -
pilgrams meet sqaunto
Squanto escaped, eventually returning to North America in 1619. He then returned to the Patuxet region, where he became an interpreter and guide for the Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth in the 1620s. He died circa November 1622 in Chatham, Massachusetts. -
Pilgrams reach plymoth
The Mayflower arrived in New At plymouth in 1620 after a voyage of 66 days. Although the Pilgrims had originally intended to settle near the Hudson River in New York, dangerous shoals and poor winds forced the ship in a different direction where the found a big rock of which they named plymouth rock naming
the area plymouth . -
New york is founded
In 1624 the first permanent Dutch settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany). One year later Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for trinkets worth about 60 Dutch guilders and founded the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now New York City), which was surrendered to the English in 1664 -
Puritins establish Masitusts Bay
In 1630 a group of people called Puritans left England for North America. ... The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England. It was one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts. The leader of the colony was John Winthrop -
Jhon Smith dies
Captain John Smith died in London on June 21, 1631. He is buried in St. Sepulchre's Church in London. Barbour, Philip. -
New Jersey was founded
The New Jersey Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The New Jersey Colony was classified as one of the Middle Colonies. . -
pocahontas dies
In March of 1617, the Rolfes boarded a ship to return to Virginia. The ship had only gone as far as Gravesend when Pocahontas fell ill. She was taken ashore, where she died, possibly of pneumonia or tuberculosis. Her funeral took place on March 21, 1617, in the parish of St. George's.
