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Hundred of people are sent to help the colonists at Roanoke island, but they never arrive. Roanoke is also seen as the lost colony
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Hundred settlers from England land with their ships Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery land in Chesapeake Bay, near Jamestown.
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John Smith and the London Company found the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, the 1st of the thirteen original American colonies.
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The Mayflower of England Separatists lands in Plymouth on November 11
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Massachusetts Bay colony (Plymouth) is established as the 2nd colony.
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New Hamshire becomes the 3rd colony.
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Virginia becomes a royal colony of England.
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New Amsterdam is settled, which later became New York.
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Maryland becomes the 4th colony.
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Providence and Portsmouth joins together and form the 5th colony, Rhode Island.
