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First colonists
The first group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and 9 children) led by Sir Walter Raleigh settled on the Island of Roanoke. -
Colony vanishes
Roanoke colony vanished entirely. Historians still do not know what became of its inhabitants. -
3 ships to Virginia
The London Company sends 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant. -
Jamestown
Jamestown settlement was built about 60 miles up the Jamestown river. -
Tobacco
Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco -
New England
The first English immigrants, to what would become the New England colonies, were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth. -
Maryland
The English crown granted 12 million acres of land to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. This colony, named Maryland after the queen, was located at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. -
New York
King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York. The English soon absorbed Dutch New Netherland and renamed it New York, but most of the Dutch people (as well as the Belgian Flemings and Walloons, French Huguenots, Scandinavians and Germans who were living there) stayed put. This made New York one of the most diverse and prosperous colonies. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was the Twelfth Colony to be be established in Colonial America. The Pennsylvania Colony was founded by the Quaker William Penn and other colonists. -
Georgia
Inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony. In many ways, Georgia’s development mirrored South Carolina’s.
