|
Colony
|
Region
|
Founder
|
Founded
|
Purpose
|
Note
|
|
Roanoke
|
Southern
|
Sir
Walter Raleigh
|
1585
|
Establish
English colony in New World
|
Colonists
disappeared without a trace.
|
|
Virginia
|
Southern
|
John
Smith
|
1607
|
Trade
and profits
|
Founded
as joint-stock company. House of Burgesses (1619). Only 60 of
1st 900 colonists survived.
|
|
Plymouth
|
New
England
|
William
Bradford
|
1620
|
Religious
freedom for Separatists
|
Mayflower
Compact. Led by William Bradford
|
|
New
York
|
Middle
|
Peter
Minuit
|
1626
|
Trade
and profits
|
Set
up as Dutch colony, taken over by English in 1664
|
|
Massachusetts
Bay
|
New
England
|
John
Winthrop
|
1630
|
Religious
freedom for Puritans
|
Led
by John Winthrop. 18,000 settlers by 1642
|
|
New
Hampshire
|
New
England
|
John
Mason
|
1630
|
Escape
for those constricted by religious and economic rules
|
Puritan
harshness led these settlers north and inland.
|
|
Maryland
|
Middle
|
George
Calvert
|
1634
|
Religious
freedom for Catholics
|
Founded
by George Calvert. Slow growing (only 600 by 1650). Maryland
Toleration Act (1649)
|
|
Connecticut
|
New
England
|
Thomas
Hooker
|
1636
|
Religious
and economic freedom
|
Leaders
of Massachusetts asked Hooker and followers to leave.
|
|
Rhode
Island
|
New
England
|
Roger
Williams
|
1636
|
Religious
freedom
|
Williams
set up most tolerant colony
|
|
Delaware
|
Middle
|
Peter
Minuit
|
1638
|
Trade
and profits
|
Established
by Sweden; taken by English in 1664
|
|
North
Carolina
|
Southern
|
Group
of proprietors
|
1653
|
Trade
and profits
|
Joint
business venture
|
|
New
Jersey
|
Middle
|
Lord
Berkeley
|
1660
|
Trade
and profits
|
Established
by Sweden; taken by English in 1664
|
|
South
Carolina
|
Southern
|
Group
of proprietors
|
1670
|
Trade
and profits
|
Rice
major crop.
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
Middle
|
William
Penn
|
1682
|
Religious
freedom for Quakers; trade and profits
|
Originally
Quaker, this colony became home to many European immigrants
|
|
Georgia
|
Southern
|
James
Oglethorpe
|
1733
|
Debtor
colony.
|
Buffer
for Spanish colonies Restrictions on blacks; size of plantations
kept colony small.
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