1. Thirteen Colonies

2. 13 Colonies Overview
Virginia Massachusetts (Bay Colony) New Hampshire Maryland Connecticut Rhode Island Delaware North Carolina South Carolina New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Georgia

3. Jamestown (Virginia) 1607, Virginia Stock Company Joint stock company
144 men (only 32 survive first year)
Early troubles
John Smith
Starving Time (winter of 1609 and 1610)
Solutions
Tobacco and John Rolfe

4. Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts)
1620, Pilgrims (a.k.a. separatists)
Escape King James / fled to Holland
Referred to Smith’s Map of new England
Survival
Massachusetts Bay Company
Led by John Winthrop
What's a Puritan
1630, 900 settlers
Boston and other towns were established
“City on a Hill”
Religious Freedom?

5. New Hampshire 1623, John Mason John Wheelwright banished from Boston
Other followers of Hutchison
Established Exeter

6. New Jersey 1623, settled by the Dutch Called “New Netherlands”
Originally part of new York
1664, made an English colony by Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
A proprietary colony

7. New York 1624, established by the Dutch
1626, Dutch settlers arrived at Manhattan island and bought the island from natives
1664, became an English colony
Originally a proprietary colony under Duke of York

8. Maryland
1634, founded under Lord Baltimore
A proprietary colony
A Catholic haven

9. Rhode Island 1636, Roger Williams Driven from Salem, Mass.
Religious and political freedom
Bought land from the Narragansett Indians
Established Providence

10. Connecticut 1636, Thomas Hooker A clergyman Driven out of Mass.
Established Hartford
1639, Fundamental Orders
Became royal colony under John Winthrop (1662)

11. Delaware
1664, became English colony
Peter Minuit founded for Swedish
1682 awarded to William Penn
A proprietary colony

12. North Carolina
1653, first settled by Virginians
Began as a proprietary colony
1663, King Charles granted territory to a group of loyal supporters

13. South Carolina
1663, King Charles created Carolina
Granted the territory to a group of 8 nobles
Charleston was founded in 1670 (originally Charles Towne)
Started as a proprietary colony

14. Pennsylvania 1682, William Penn
A member of Society of Friends (Quakers)
1682, plans were made for Philadelphia
City of Brotherly Love
A group of Germans arrived 1683, Germantown
A proprietary colony

15. Georgia 1732, granted to James Oglethorpe King George II
To provide protection for colonies
Fort King George was established
Savannah was planned out by Oglethorpe
England sent debtors and criminals, known as Georgia experiment
A proprietary colony