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Chart of the Thirteen Original Colonies



COLONY NAME YEAR FOUNDED FOUNDED BY BECAME ROYAL COLONY

Virginia 1607 London Company 1624

Massachusetts 1620 Puritans 1691

Maryland 1634 Lord Baltimore N/A

Connecticut c. 1635 Thomas Hooker N/A

Rhode Island 1636 Roger Williams N/A

Delaware 1638 Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company N/A

New Hampshire 1638 John Wheelwright 1679

North Carolina 1653 Virginians 1729

South Carolina 1663 Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II 1729

New Jersey 1664 Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret 1702

New York 1664 Duke of York 1685

Pennsylvania 1682 William Penn N/A

Georgia 1732 James Edward Oglethorpe 1752