1600-1700 By 1ily76 Period: 1600 to 1700 1600-1700 1607 Founding of Jamestown 1608 Captain John Smith taking charge of Jamestown 1610 Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico 1619 Beginning of the slave trade in British North America 1619 House of Burgesses 1643 New England Confederation 1649 Toleration Act 1664 New Netherlands becomes English colonies of New York and New Jersey 1673 Marquette and Joliet explore central Mississippi River 1675 Start of King Philip‘s war 1675 Bacon‘s Rebellion 1676 End of King Phillip‘s War 1681 Pennsylvania colony 1686 Dominion of New England