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    The document summarizes the thirteen original colonies of British North America, listing each colony and providing details about its founding date, founders, purpose, naming, and main settlements. Specifically, it notes that the thirteen colonies were Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. For each colony it gives the year it was founded, who founded it, its purpose, why it was named, and its main early settlements.

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    Thirteen Colonies by Annie Condori

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    The document summarizes the thirteen original colonies of British North America, listing each colony and providing details about its founding date, founders, purpose, naming, and main settlements. Specifically, it notes that the thirteen colonies were Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. For each colony it gives the year it was founded, who founded it, its purpose, why it was named, and its main early settlements.

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    By: Annie Karina Condori Snchez

    Thirteen colonies
    How many Colonies were founded in North America?

    Thirteen colonies were founded in North America.

    Thirteen colonies founded in North America.

    1. Virginia

    2. Massachusetts

    3. New York

    4. Maryland

    5. Connecticut

    6. Rhode Island

    7. Delaware

    8. New Hamspire

    9. North Carolina

    10. South Carolina

    11. New Jersey

    12. Pennsilvania

    13. Georgia

    Write the names and the foundations date.

    1. Virginia:

    Foundations: 1607

    Founded by: John Smith and the

    London Company

    Purpose: To expand English trade

    Named for: In honor of the Virgin

    Queen, Elizabeth I
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    Main settlement: Jamestown and Williamsburg

    2. Massachusetts

    Foundation: 1620 (Plymouth) and 1630

    (Massachusetts Bay)

    Founded by: John Carver and William

    Bradford (Plymouth) and John Winthrop

    (Boston)

    Purpose: Religious freedom

    Named for: Tribe massachusecs (place of the great hill)

    Main settlement: Plymouth and Boston

    3. New York

    Founded: 1624

    Founded by: Peter Minuit and a group of

    Dutch

    Purpose: To expand Dutch trade

    Named for: Duke of York

    Main settlement: New York (New Amsterdam) and Albany

    4. Maryland

    Founded: 1634

    Founded by: Cecil Calvert (Lord

    Balhmore)

    Purpose: from the sale of land and

    religious freedom

    Named for: Honor to Queen Henrietta Mary of England

    Main settlement: Balhmore and Annapolis

    5. Connecticut:

    Foundation: 1635

    Founded by: Thomas Hooker


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    Purpose: Profits from the sale of land and

    religious freedom

    Named for: from the word algonquina

    "quinnehtukqut" (great turbulent river)

    Main settlement: Harkord and New Haven

    6. Rhode Island

    Founded: 1636

    Founded by: Roger Williams

    Purpose: Religious Freedom

    Named for: "Isla roja" in Dutch

    Main settlement: Providence

    7. Delaware

    Founded: 1638

    Founded by: Peter Minuit and

    Swedish settlers

    Purpose: Expand trade

    Named for: Tribe Delaware

    Main settlement: Wilmington

    8. New Hampshire

    Founded: 1623

    Founded by: Ferdinando Gorges & John Mason

    Purpose: Profits from trade and fishing

    Named for: Hampshire County in England

    Main settlement: Concord, Exeter and Hampton

    9. North Carolina

    Founded: 1653

    Founded by: Group of eight

    English aristocrats
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    Purpose: Profits from the sale and sale of lands

    Named for: "Carolus", Latin word for Charles, King Charles I of

    England.

    Main settlement: Raleigh

    10. South Carolina

    Founded: 1653

    Founded by: Group of eight English aristocrats

    Division: 1712

    Purpose: Profits from the sale and sale of

    lands

    Named for: "Carolus", Latin word for

    Charles, King Charles I of England

    Main settlement: Charlestown

    11. New Jersey

    Founded: 1618

    Founded by: John Berkeley, George Carteret

    Purpose: Profits from the sale of land

    Named for: Jersey Island on the English duct,

    England

    Main settlement: Trenton and Princeton

    12. Pennsilvania

    Founded: 1682

    Founded by: William Penn

    Purpose: Profits from the fur trade,

    agriculture; Religious and political

    freedom
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    Named for: From the name of the founder and "sylvannia", Latin word

    for forest

    Main settlement: Philadelphia, Lancaster and York

    13. Georgia

    Founded: 1733

    Founded by: James Oglethorpe

    Purpose: Religious freedom, protection

    against Spanish Florida, safe place for

    debtors.

    Named for: In honor of King George II

    Main settlement: Savannah

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