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FOUNDING
OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES
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FIRST ESTABLISHED
SETTLEMENT
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COLONY |
PRINCIPAL FOUNDERS |
PURPOSE OF FOUNDERS |
| 1607 | Virginia | Virginia Company
London Company |
To find precious metals; to defy Spain |
| 1620 | Plymouth (later became part of Massachusetts) | Pilgrims | Religious freedom |
| 1623 | New Jersey | Dutch West India Company | To reward proprietors |
| 1623 | Maine (later became part of Massachusetts) | Fernando Gorges | Trade |
| 1623 | New Hampshire | John Mason
John Wheelwright |
Trade; Refuge from Massachusetts |
| 1624 | New
York (originally known as
New Netherlands) |
Dutch West India Company | Reward to proprietors |
| 1629 | Massachusetts | Puritans (Mass. Bay Colony) | Puritan utopia |
| 1634 | Maryland | George Calvert | Haven for Catholics |
| 1636 | Rhode Island | Roger Williams;
Ann Hutchinson |
Refuge from Massachusetts; To establish religious and political freedom |
| 1638 | Connecticut | English and Dutch | Trade |
| 1638 | Delaware | Swedish South Company;
Peter Minuit |
Trade |
| 1660 | Carolina (North) | Eight Noble Lords
(Separated in the 1700s) |
To found a feudal state |
| 1670 | Carolina (South) | ||
| 1683 | Pennsylvania | William Penn; Quakers | Christian refuge for victims of persecution |
| 1733 | Georgia | James Oglethorpe | Haven for debtors and religious refugees |