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King James the 1 divided the Atlantic seaboard into 2, giving the southern half to the London Company, and giving the other half to the Plymouth Company.
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The first Aferacain American slaves arived.
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A small group of Putitains arrived in Plymouth.
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The English crowned about 12,000,000 acres of land at the top of Chesapeake Bay to Celilus Cakvert.
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King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York. The English soon absorbed Dutch New Netherland and renamed it New York,
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Connectiaut and New Haven combined
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In 1680, the king granted 45,000 square miles of land west of the Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker who owned large swaths of land in Ireland.
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In 1700, there were about 250,000 European and African settlers in North America’s thirteen English colonies.
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Inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony. In many ways, Georgia’s development mirrored South Carolina
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On the eve of revolution, there were nearly 2.5 million. These colonists did not have much in common, but they were able to band together and fight for their independence.
