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	The '''Thirteen Colonies''' were ] colonies in ] founded between 1607 (]), and 1732 (]). Although Britain held a dozen additional colonies in North America and the ], the colonies referred to as the "thirteen" are those that ]. (The seven other British colonies in North America did not join the rebellion.) The 13 formed a national government under the ], called themselves "The United Colonies of North America" and formally proclaimed their independence as the ] on ].
	== The Colonies ==

	Contemporaneous documents usually listed the colonies of ] in geographical order, from north to south.

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	==Other divisions prior to 1730==
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	* ] - Created by ] with the consolidation of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, East Jersey, and West Jersey into a single "super colony" in 1685. The experiment was discontined with the ] of 1688-89, and the nine former colonies re-established their separate identies in 1689.
	*] - Settled in 1622. (An earlier attempt to settle the ] on Sagadahoc Island, Maine in 1607 was abandoned after only one year.) Massachusetts Bay colony encroached into Maine during the ], but, with the ], autonomy was returned to Maine in 1664. Maine was officially merged into Massachusetts Bay Colony with the issuance of the Massachusetts Bay charter of 1691.
	* ] - Settled in 1620 by the ]. Plymouth was absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony with the issuance of the Massachusetts Bay charter of 1691.
	* ] - Settled in late 1637. New Haven was absorbed by Connecticut Colony with the issuance of the Connecticut Charter in 1662, partly as royal punishment by King Charles II for harboring the regicide judges who sentenced King Charles I to death.
	* ] - New Jersey was divided into two separate colonies in 1674. The Jerseys were reunited in 1702.
	* ] - New Jersey was divided into two separate colonies in 1674. The Jerseys were reunited in 1702.
	* ] - Founded in 1663. Carolina colony was divided into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1712. (Both colonies became royal colonies in 1729.)

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	==Bibliography==
	* Adams, James Truslow. ''The Founding of New England.'' (1921).
	* Charles M. Andrews. ''The Colonial Period of American History'' 4 vol (1934-38).
	* Blanco, Richard. ''The American Revolution: An Encyclopedia'' 2 vol (1993)
	* Cooke, Jacob Ernest et al., ed. ''Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies.'' Scribner's, 1993. 3 vol; 2397 pp.
	* Gipson, Lawrence. ''The British Empire Before the American Revolution'' (15 volumes) (1936-1970), Pulitzer Prize; highly detailed discussion of every British colony in the New World
	* Greene, Evarts Boutelle. ''Provincial America, 1690-1740.'' 1905.
	* Lipset, Seymour Martin. ''The First New Nation (The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective)'' (1967)
	* Middlekauff, Robert. ''The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789'' (1985)
	* Miller, John C. ''Triumph of Freedom, 1775-1783'' (1948)
	* Osgood, Herbert L. ''The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century.'' 4 vol Columbia University Press, 1904-07.
	* Taylor, Alan. ''American Colonies'' (2001)
	* Vickers, Daniel, ed. ''A Companion to Colonial America.'' Blackwell, 2003. 576 pp.

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