Volume 12 , Issue 16

Thirteen Colonies

The British empire settled its first permanent colony in the Americas at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. This was the but the first of 13 colonies in North America. The 13 colonies can be divided into three regions: New England (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island), Middle (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware), and Southern (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia) Colonies.

It included the following: Virginia (1607), Massachusetts (1620), New Hampshire (1623), Maryland (1634), Conneticut (c. 1635), Rhode island (1636), Delaware (1638), North Carolina (1653), South Carolina (1663), New Jersey (1664), New york (1664), Pennsylvania (1682), Georgia (1732).

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