Chart of the Thirteen Original Colonies
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| COLONY NAME | YEAR FOUNDED | FOUNDED BY | BECAME ROYAL COLONY |
| Virginia | 1607 | London Company | 1624 |
| Massachusetts | 1620 | Puritans | 1691 |
| New Hampshire | 1623 | John Wheelwright | 1679 |
| Maryland | 1634 | Lord Baltimore | N/A |
| Connecticut | c. 1635 | Thomas Hooker | N/A |
| Rhode Island | 1636 | Roger Williams | N/A |
| Delaware | 1638 | Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company | N/A |
| North Carolina | 1653 | Virginians | 1729 |
| South Carolina | 1663 | Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II | 1729 |
| New Jersey | 1664 | Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret | 1702 |
| New York | 1664 | Duke of York | 1685 |
| Pennsylvania | 1682 | William Penn | N/A |
| Georgia | 1732 | James Edward Oglethorpe | 1752 |
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