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St. Augustine was founded by a
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Roanoke is know as the lost colony in North Carolina because no one knows where the people went.
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They found Jamestown in Virginia, on the Susan Constant,Godspeed and the Discovery. The ships carried 104 colonists and 34 saliers.
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The settlers came to Massachusetts in the Mayflower they were called pilgrims because they searched for freedom.
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In 1664, the English men sent a lots of warships to capture New Netherland in West India for the Duke of York. Many of the people would not to fight, and the Governor had to give up and the English wun. New Netherland became the English colony of New York.
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They picked Williamsburg in Virginia because it had better soil for crops, and less mosquitoes.
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Sweden was the only colony on the Delaware River in America.
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William Penn was given total control over the town in between New York and Maryland. They also named it Pennsylvania because it meant penn’s woods.