Connecticut Colony New Hampshire Colony
Delaware Colony North Carolina Colony
Georgia Colony Pennsylvania Colony
Maryland Colony Rhode Island Colony
Massachusetts (included Maine) South Carolina Colony
New Jersey Colony Virginia Colony
New York Colony
, 13 Colonies in Order of Colonization
Date of Colonization Name of Colony / Settlement Famous People
1607 Virginia John Smith John Rolfe
1620 Plymouth Colony John Carver William Bradford
1626 New York Peter Minuit Peter Stuyvesant
1630 Massachusetts Bay John Winthrop
1633 Maryland George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
1636 Rhode Island Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson
1636 Connecticut Thomas Hooker
1638 New Hampshire John Mason John Wheelright
1638 Delaware Peter Minuit William Penn
1653 North Carolina Lords Proprietors
1663 South Carolina Charter of Carolina
1664 New Jersey George Carteret
1682 Pennsylvania William Penn
1732 Georgia James Oglethorpe