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American History Campus
Current Classes & Activities
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 |