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Hundreds of people are sent to help the colonists at Roanoke Island, but they nevr arrive. Roanoke is also seen as The Lost Colony.
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Mayflower of English seperatists lands in Plymouth MA
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Massachusetts bay colony is established as the second colony.
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New Amsterdam is settled, which later became New York.
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Providence and Portsmouth joins together and form the fifth colony, Rhode Island.
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Virginians settle the eigth colony; The North Carolina Colony.
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Quaker William Penn founds the Pennsylvania colony; The twelth of the original thirteen colonies looking for freedom of religion.
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Massachusetts becomes a royal colony.
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North and South Carolina become an English royal colony.
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Georgia becomes the thirteenth colony, named after King George II.
