The English colonies in North America
Southern colonies:
| colony |
founder |
year |
purpose |
| Virginia |
London company |
1607/1624 |
Trade/resources |
| Maryland |
Lord Baltimore |
1632 |
Catholic refuge |
| North Carolina |
businessmen |
1653 |
trade |
| South Carolina |
proprietors |
1670 |
trade |
| Georgia |
English Parliament
James Oglethorpe |
1732 |
to salvage bankrupt debtors |
Virtual Jamestown:
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/
Take a virtual tour of Thomas Jefferson's plantation
Monticello: http://www.monticello.org/index.html
Colonial Williamsburg: http://www.history.org/
New England colonies
| colony |
Founder |
Year |
Purpose |
| Massachusetts |
Puritans/John Winthrop |
1620/1628 |
Religious "kingdom" |
| Rhode Island |
Roger Williams |
1635 |
escape from Puritanism |
| Connecticut |
Thomas Hooker |
1639 |
to duplicate Massachusetts model |
| New Hampshire |
John Wheelwright |
1638/1679 |
political/established as royal colony out of
Massachusetts by King Charles to punish New Englanders |
Take a virtual tour of Plimoth (first colony in
New England: http://www.plimoth.org/
Middle Colonies
| colony |
founder |
year |
purpose |
| New Amsterdam |
Peter Minuit |
1626 |
Trade |
| Delaware |
Peter Minuit |
1638 |
Trade |
| New Jersey |
Lord Berkeley |
1664 |
Trade |
| Pennsylvania |
William Penn |
1682 |
Quaker refuge |
The Colonial Albany Social History
Project: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/welcome.html
From the Pennsylvania Historical Society,
information on the Quaker province: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/pahist/quaker.asp?secid=31