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A puritan expedition which left England for the new world on the 6th of September reaches Plymouth Harbor.
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The first vessels of Winthrop's eleven ship fleet land in Massachusetts and form the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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The Pequot tribe attacked the colonies of Plymouth and Saybrook in Massachusetts. Only 200 Pequot remains after the war.
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Slavery is legalized in the colony of Connecticut and recognized in the others.
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The Harvard Board becomes the first legalized corporation in the American colonies.
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The Navigation Act is passed by British Parliament to control colonial commerce in America.
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300 British troops seize the New Netherlands in a peaceful takeover.
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore midwest states along the Mississippi River from Wisconsin to the Arkansas River.
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France claims the lower Mississippi River valley, Louisiana, when Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle explores the region.
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Jamestown is abandoned after the statehouse is burned in 1698 with the colonial government moving to Middle Plantation, renamed soon after as Williamsburg.