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91 men, 17 women and nine children settled on the island of Roanoke.
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The colony of the island of Roanoke vanishes completely with no clue what happened to them
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King James I issued royal charter, which divided the Atlantic Seabord in 2 (London and Plymouth Company)
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the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant.
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Ships arrive to Cheaspeake
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Boats arrive to Chesapeake Bay, and build a settlement called Jamestown
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Virginian settlers start to grow tobacco
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The first African slaves arrived in Virginia
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Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth
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King revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and it became a royal colony.
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Massachusetts Bay Company send a larger Group of Puritans to settle in another Massachusetts settlement
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Crown Grants 12 million acres at the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert.
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King Charles II gives territory from the Dutch to his brother, the Duke of York, which would be called New York later
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Connecticut and New Haven combined
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King grants 45,000 square miles of land miles of land west of Delaware River to William Penn. the land called later Pennsylvania.
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The Carolina Colony splits into two
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The Englishman James Oglethorpe founded the Georgia Colony