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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 colonial leaders sought a way allowing the individual colonies to coordinate a collective defense of New England. The New England leaders also felt that they were unique among the American colonies, and they hoped to band together to preserve their Puritan values. The treaty calls on the New England colonies to act as a nation ...
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
The first European settlement in New England was a French colony ... all of southern New England. By 1912, the New Haven operated over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of track ...
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 ...
The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut.It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker.
The first was the Saybrook Colony in 1635, based at the mouth of the Connecticut; it was followed by the Connecticut Colony (first settlement 1633, government from 1639) and the New Haven Colony (settled 1638, government from 1639). The Saybrook Colony merged with the Connecticut Colony in 1644, and the New Haven Colony was merged into ...
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 ...