Name of Colony |
Date Founded |
Reason For Colony’s Establishment |
Founder |
Primary Economic Base |
Plymouth (Massachusetts) |
1620 |
Separatists who desired to remain separate from the Anglican Church went to Plymouth |
William Bradford |
Agriculture(fishing, corn), Manufacturing (lumbering, shipbuilding) |
Salem (Massachusetts) |
1630 |
English society was corrupt and as many people needed to be evacuated as possible |
John Winthrop |
Agriculture(fishing, corn), Manufacturing (lumbering, shipbuilding) |
New Hampshire (fishing village) |
1623 |
To establish a fishing village |
John Mason |
Agriculture (Fish) |
Exeter (New Hampshire, official discovery) |
1638 |
Founded by John Wheelright who was banished for defending his outlawed sister Anne Hutchinson |
John Wheelright |
Agriculture (potatoes and fishing), Manufacturing (textiles, shipbuilding) |
Providence (Rhode Island) |
1636 |
Disagreed with the theocracy being created in Rhode Island and was expelled |
Roger Williams |
Agriculture (meat, dairy,fishing), Manufacturing (Lumbering) |
Connecticut(Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor) |
1636-1639 |
Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts after being left out of leadership. He started his own colony in Connecticut. |
Thomas Hooker |
Agriculture (wheat, corn, fishing) |