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New Haven Colony was an English colony from 1638 to 1664 that included settlements on the north shore of Long Island Sound, with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1]
New England Colonies Coat of Arms/Seal Name Capital Year(s) Colony type Notes Plymouth: Plymouth: 1620–1686 1689–1691: Self-governing: Merged into the Dominion of New England in 1686, reformed in 1689, and then merged into Massachusetts in 1691 Massachusetts Bay: Charlestown Salem Boston: 1628–1686 1689–1691: Self-governing
Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven Colonies formed the New England Confederation in 1643, and all New England colonies were included in the Dominion of New England (1686–1689). Middle colonies
New Englander's homestead New Haven Colony: New Haven: CT: 1638: New Englander towns found at mouth of Quinnipiac River: Fort Christina: Wilmington: DE: 1638: first of Swedish settlements on the Zuyd Rivier; Fort Altena in 1655 Broncks: The Bronx: NY: 1639: settled by Jonas Bronck [23] Paulus Hoeck: Paulus Hook: NJ: 1639: patent at Pavonia ...
1832 map of New Haven by J.W. Barber. When his old friend John Davenport arrived in Massachusetts, Seeley joined his group and helped establish the New Haven Colony in 1638. Seeley served as New Haven's first town marshal and lieutenant of the militia. He was generally known in the community as Lieutenant Seeley.
New England is the oldest clearly defined region of the United States, being settled more than 150 years before the American Revolution.The first colony in New England was Plymouth Colony, established in 1620 by the Puritan Pilgrims who were fleeing religious persecution in England.
A seventeenth century map shows New England as a coastal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France while its interior is rendered New Belgium, New Netherland and Iroquois Confederacy. The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." [1] The ...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...