| Name of Colony | Date Founded | Reason For Colony’s Establishment | Founder | Primary Economic Base |
| New Jersey(New Netherlands) | 1623 by Dutch, 1664 by English | Originally settled by Dutch in 1623. Taken over by British. Proprietary grant made by Duke of York to George Carteret and Lord Berkeley | English Colonists | Manufacturing (ironworking, lumbering) |
| New York (New Amsterdam) | 1624 by Dutch, 1664 by English | Exploratory colony for the Netherlands | Peter Minuit and other Dutch sailors | Manufacturing (shipbuilding, iron works), Agriculture (cattle, grain, rice, indigo, wheat) |
| Pennsylvania | 1682 | A grant fiven to William Penn by King Charles II to set up a quaker colony in Pennsylvania (Penn’s woods) | William Penn | Agriculture (wheat, corn, cattle, dairy), Manufacturing (textiles, papermaking, shipbuilding) |
| Delaware | 1638 by Swedish, 1655 by Dutch, 1664 by English | Discovered for exploratory purposes by Sweden and made into a proprietary colony by British. | Peter Minuit | Agriculture (fishing), Manufacturing (lumbering) |
