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- This was granted in 1806 when the Assembly set off and incorporated the Parish of West Britain as the town of Burlington. Although America was independent from Great Britain for three decades, tradition holds that the new name for West Britain was chosen by the General Assembly to honor England’s third Earl of Burlington.
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The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.
Although America was independent from Great Britain for three decades, tradition holds that the new name for West Britain was chosen by the General Assembly to honor England’s third Earl of Burlington.
- English Colonial Expansion
- The Tobacco Colonies
- The New England Colonies
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- The Revolutionary War and The Treaty of Paris
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Sixteenth-century England was a tumultuous place. Because they could make more money from selling wool than from selling food, many of the nation’s landowners were converting farmers’ fields into pastures for sheep. This led to a food shortage; at the same time, many agricultural workers lost their jobs. The 16th century was also the age of mercant...
In 1606, King James I divided the Atlantic seaboard in two, giving the southern half to the London Company (later the VirginiaCompany) and the northern half to the Plymouth Company. The first English settlement in North America had actually been established some 20 years before, in 1587, when a group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and nine children...
The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 to found Plymouth Colony. Ten years later, a wealthy syndicate known as the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a much larger (and more liberal) group of Puritans to establish ano...
In 1664, 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. Most of the Dutch people (as well as the Belgian Flemings and Walloons, Fren...
By contrast, the Carolina colony, a territory that stretched south from Virginia to Florida and west to the Pacific Ocean, was much less cosmopolitan. In its northern half, hardscrabble farmers eked out a living. In its southern half, planters presided over vast estates that produced corn, lumber, beef and pork, and–starting in the 1690s–rice. Thes...
In 1700, there were about 250,000 European settlers and enslaved Africans in North America’s English colonies. By 1775, on the eve of revolution, there were an estimated 2.5 million. The colonists did not have much in common, but they were able to band together and fight for their independence. The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was sparked...
During the Revolutionary War, a flag featuring thirteen alternating red and white stripes and thirteen five-pointed stars arranged in a circle was adopted. This variant is also known as the "Betsy RossFlag," as she was believed to have designed it. The stars and stripes represent the 13 colonies.
British America, known as English America before 1707, comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783. [1] These colonies were formally known as British America and the British West Indies immediately prior to thirteen of the colonies rebelling in the American ...
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- The British Colonies in the Three Regions of America. This guide to the British Colonies in North America provides essential facts about each colony, along with links to related content on American History Central.
- Virginia. Essential Facts. Year Founded — 1607. Founded By — The London Company of Virginia. General Assembly Established — 1619. Primary Documents. First Charter of Virginia, April 1606.
- Massachusetts. Essential Facts. Year Founded — 1629. Founded By — Massachusetts Bay Company. General Assembly Established — 1633. Primary Documents. Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629.
- Maryland. Essential Facts. Year Founded — 1634. Founded By — Lord Baltimore. General Assembly Established — 1634. Key People. Samuel Chase. History. Coode’s Rebellion.
British America now consists of the thirteen colonies founded or developed by Britain between 1607 and 1732 , together with four provinces won through warfare - Nova scotia in 1713, and then Quebec and West and East Florida in 1763.
American colonies, the 13 British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in the area that is now a part of the eastern United States. The colonies grew both geographically and numerically from the time of their founding to the American Revolution (1775–81).
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