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| ] ruled the orange. The red area is the area of the 13 colonies open to settlement after the ]. ]] | |||
| The '''Thirteen Colonies''' were ] colonies in ] founded between 1607 (]), and 1732 (]). Although Great Britain held several other colonies in North America and the ], the colonies referred to as the "thirteen" are those that ] (]) and proclaimed their independence on ]. They subsequently constituted the first 13 ] of the ]. | |||
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| == The Colonies == | |||
| Contemporaneous documents usually listed the colonies of ] in geographical order, from north to south. | |||
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| ** ], later named to ] and ]<ref name="ver">The present State of ] was disputed between the colonies of New York and New Hampshire. From 1777 to 1791, it existed as the ''de facto'' independent ].</ref> | |||
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| ==Other divisions prior to 1730== | |||
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| ; ] : Created by ] with the consolidation of ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ] into a single larger colony in 1685. The experiment was discontinued with the ] of 1688-89, and the nine former colonies re-established their separate identities 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. | |||
| ; ] and ] : 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.) | |||
| ==See also== | |||
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