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The first English settlement in North America was established on July 22, 1587, when a group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and nine children) settled on the island of Roanoke.
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Mysteriously, by August 18 1590 the Roanoke colony had vanished entirely.
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December 20, 1606, just a few months after James I issued its charter, the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant.
•They reached the Chesapeake Bay on May 14 1607 and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown. -
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alot of this area was already owned by Dutch traders and landowners who were called patroons. Dutch New Netherland-New York
New York is diverse -
Massachusetts not pious enough - New Haven and Connecticut
Massachusetts to pious - Rhode Island -
William Penn - Quaker owns lots of land in Ireland
Penn’s Woods - Pennsylvania
king grants 45,000 square miles of land west of the Delaware River to William Penn -
northern - farmers hard
south - lots of land, producing corn, lumber, beef and pork, and rice in 1690. -
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James Oglethorpe - georgia
buffer - South Carolina - Spanish in florida
georgia - mirror of South Carolina