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British Colonization
List of English and British colonies in North America
Roanoke Colony, founded 1586, abandoned the next year. Second attempt in 1587 disappeared (also called the Lost Colony).
Cuttyhunk Island, Bartholomew Gosnold established a small fort and trading post in 1602, abandoned after one month
Virginia Company, chartered 1606 and became the Virginia Colony in 1624
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Jamestown, Virginia, founded 1607.
Bermuda, these islands, located in the North Atlantic, were first settled in 1609 by the London Virginia Company; Administration passed to The Somers Isles Company, formed by the same shareholders, in 1615. Also known officially as The Somers Isles, they remain a British overseas territory.
Citie of Henricopolis, founded in 1611 as an alternative to theswampy Jamestown site and was destroyed in the Indian massacre of 1622.
Plymouth Company
Popham Colony, founded 1607, abandoned 1608
Society of Merchant Venturers (Newfoundland)
Cuper's Cove, founded 1610, abandoned in the 1620s
Bristol's Hope, founded 1618, abandoned in the 1630s
London and Bristol Company (Newfoundland)
New Cambriol, founded 1617, abandoned before 1637.
Renews, founded1615, (abandoned in 1619[1])
St. John's, Newfoundland, chartered by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583; seasonal settlements ca. 1520;[2] informal year-round settlers before 1620.[3][4]
Plymouth Council for New England
Plymouth Colony, founded 1620, merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691
Ferryland, Newfoundland granted to George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore in 1620, first settlers in August1621[5]
Province of Maine, granted 1622, sold to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1677
South Falkland, Newfoundland, founded 1623 by Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland
Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire settled in 1623, see also New Hampshire Grants
Dorchester Company Colony, (Dorchester Company planted an unsuccessful fishing colony on Cape Ann at modern Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1624)Salem Colony, later Salem, Massachusetts, settled in 1628, merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony the next year
Massachusetts Bay Colony, later part of Massachusetts, founded 1629
New Scotland, in present Nova Scotia, 1629–1632
Connecticut Colony, later part of Connecticut founded 1633
English and later British Caribbean colonies
Saint Kitts - The island was settled by Sir Thomas Warner in1623. The following year the French also settled part of St Kitts. After they massacred the Caribs, the British and French turned on each other and St Kitts changed hands between the two several times before the Treaty of Paris (1783) gave the island to Britain. It became independent as Saint Kitts and Nevis in 1983.
Barbados - The island was claimed for the British Empire in 1625, and later settledin 1627 as a proprietary colony of Anglo-Dutchman William Courten. It became an independent nation in 1966.
Nevis - The island was permanently settled in 1628. It became independent as Saint Kitts and Nevis in 1983.
Providencia Island - part of an archipelago off the coast of Nicaragua, this island was settled in 1630 by English Puritans. The colony was conquered by the Spanish and becameextinct in 1641. The island today is Providencia Island which is administered by Colombia. Providence Island colony was a sister colony to the more well known Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Antigua - The island was settled in 1632. It became independent as Antigua and Barbuda in 1981
Barbuda - The island was settled about 1632. It became independent as Antigua and Barbuda in 1981.
Montserrat - The islandwas settled in 1632. It was occupied by the French in 1664-68 and 1782-84. It remains a British territory.
Bahamas - The islands were settled from 1647. They became independent in 1973.
Anguilla - The island was settled in 1650. Its government was united with St. Christopher from 1882 until 1967, when it declared its separation. It was brought back under British administration in 1969. It...
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