Katie Cashel Timeline

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  • 1585

    1585
    Sir Walter Raleigh received his charter from Queen Elizabeth.

  • 1607

    1607
    The Virginia Company founded the Chesapeake Bay on the Jamestown River.

  • 1607

    1607
    Plymouth was founded

  • 1612

    1612
    John Rolfe planted the first successful tobacco crop in Jamestown.

  • 1620

    1620
    In 1620 the Pilgrims founded Cap Cod they were motivatied by religious freedom.

  • 1630

    1630
    Puritans arrived in Massachusetts and named it Boston.

  • 1636

    1636
    Thomas Hooker led followers west and south to the rich soil of the Connecticut River Vally.

  • 1638

    1638
    Anne Hutchinson and her followers formed Portsmouth, another Rhode Island settlement.

  • 1649

    1649
    The toleration Act made religious freedom for Christians in Maryland.

  • 1720

    1720
    Carolinas population was so big that they split it in two.