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The English settled in Roanoke. Seven ships sailed with 108 colonist.
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London founded Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. That colony was the beginning of Virgina.
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Three ships arrived off the coast of what is now Virgina.
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Plymouth colony was founded. It was the 2nd English settlement in North America, after Jamestown.
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Salem was the Puritans' first settlement in the MA Bay area. It's name comes from the Hebrew word which means "peace".
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Charles Town was founded.
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The Spanish built the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine.
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The Englishman William Penn Founged a city on the Delaware River in southeastern PA where he and his fellow Quakers could practice their religion freeley. Penn named the place Philadelphia.
