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Jamestown
Jamestown was founded in 1607 by the English, and was the very first colony in the New world, and what would become America, Jamestown sadly was nearly a failure due to the citizens deciding to look for gold and silver rather than plant crops and make food. It was abandoned in 1698. (Ignitia.com Editors) -
Seperatists settled in Plymouth
England simply did not have religious freedoms, and some didn't like that, those some were called the Seperatists, for they seperated themselves from the church of England. In 1620, they had decided to rent a boat called the Mayflower, sign the Mayflower compact, elect a governor, and settle in the new world, creating a colony named Plymouth. (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Puritans settled in Massachusetts.
The Puritans were a protestant group that believed the church of England was incomplete, a rich group of these people decided to go ahead and get a charter from the king, to make a colony, and name it, "Massachusetts" in the territory of the council of new England, under the name "Massachusetts bay colony." "The planning that went into the Massachusetts Bay Colony indicated how much the English had learned about founding a colony since the early disasters at Jamestown" (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Maryland.
Maryland was a safe haven for catholics, and the first ever proprietary colony, proprietary meaning owned by a private person.
A man named George Calvert gained a charter from the king, Charles 1 (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The Carolina's.
The North and South Carolinas's started slowly, "The Carolina proprietors were unwilling to risk their own funds in a settlement venture. They advertised the colony and offered free land to those who would come and sit back to watch cities blossom. Unfortunately, for years, nothing but wildflowers blossomed on the sandy beaches of the Carolinas." (Ignitia.com Editors). -
New Netherland became New York.
New York was actually originally a colony belonging to the Dutch as a trading post in 1621, but had an awful lot of illegal trade going on, and so, the king sent his brother, James, Duke Of York, to claim New Netherlands as his own, and so he did, without firing a single bullet, and renamed it New York. (Ignitia.com Editors.) -
The Quakers.
The Quakers were a religious group seeking refuge from persecution in England, and ended up buying the colony of New Jersey from a man named John Berkley in 1674, making it a refuge for all Quakers. (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Pennsylvania
William Penn, was another Quaker, whomst when his father died, he inherited alot of money as a debt from the king, but instead of taking the money, he asked for land in America, and founded Pennsylvania, a safe haven for fellow Quakers. (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Deleware
"Delaware became a separate colony many years after it was first settled. The Swedes first controlled this land in 1638, and then it was controlled by the Dutch" (Ignitia.com Editors). Then, William Penn went ahead and bought Deleware from James York, so he could have a coastline for trade. -
Georgia
A man named James Oglethorpe, owned, and gained a charter for Georgia from George 1, the king at the time, and Georgia was mostly used as a sort of buffer zone between Carolina and Florida to keep the Spanish from expanding, and as a haven for English prisoners. (Ignitia.com Editors)