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The Thirteen American Colonies
The first colonies in North America were founded on the
eastern coast. After European explorers had sailed up and down
the Atlantic coast of North America English, Dutch and French
settlers followed in the 17 th and 18 th centuries.
The English founded the first permanent settlement in America
in 1607. The first colony was called Jamestown, situated in
today’s Virginia. The colony was named after the English king,
James I. The first colonists hoped to find gold in the New World
and to get rich quickly. But the settlers had many problems during
the first winters and hardly managed to survive.
In 1620 a second group of colonists, the Pilgrims, left England on
the Mayflower. They set up a colony at Plymouth, in today’s
Massachusetts. Other English colonies sprang up all along the
Atlantic coast, from Maine to Georgia.
In 1624 Dutch settlers founded a settlement along the mouth
of the Hudson River. They called it New Amsterdam. About forty
years later English settlers drove the Dutch away and renamed the
town New York.
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By 1750 there were 13 English colonies in North
America. They were divided into three groups:
The New England Colonies
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Rhode Island
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Connecticut
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Massachusetts
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New Hampshire
The Middle Colonies
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Delaware
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Pennsylvania
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New York
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New Jersey
The Southern Colonies
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Maryland
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Virginia
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North and South Carolina
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Georgia
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Bradford became governor in 1621
upon the death of John Carver, served
for eleven consecutive years, and was
elected to various other terms until his
death in 1657. Bradford surrendered
the patent of Plymouth Colony to the
freemen in 1640, minus a small reserve
of three tracts of land. On March 22,
1621, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony
signed a peace treaty with Massasoit of
the Wampanoag’s.
commenced immediately,
with the first common house nearly
completed by January 9/January 19. At
this point, single men were ordered to
join with families. Each extended family
was assigned a plot and built its own
dwelling. Supplies were brought ashore,
and the settlement was mostly complete
by early February.
Between the landing and March, only
47 colonists had survived the diseases
they contracted on the ship. During the
worst of the sickness, only six or seven
of the group were able and willing to
feed and care for the rest. In this time,
half the Mayflower crew also died.
When the Massachusetts Bay Colony
was reorganized and issued a new
charter
as
the
Providence
of
Massachusetts Bay in 1691, Plymouth
ended its history as a separate colony.
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