New England Colonies | |
|---|---|
| 1620–1776 | |
.jpg) Map of the New England Colonies in 1755 | |
| Historical era | British colonization of the Americas Puritan migration to New England American Revolution |
| 1607 | |
• Council for New England founded | 1620 the New England Colonies were established 1620 |
| 1620 | |
• Founding of Boston | 1630 |
| 1636 | |
• New England Confederation formed | 1643 |
| 1686-1689 | |
| 1776 | |
• Reorganized as part of the United Colonies | 1776 |
The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually became five of the six states in New England, with Plymouth Colony absorbed into Massachusetts and Maine separating from it.[1]
In 1616, Captain John Smith authored A Description of New England, which first applied the term "New England"[2] to the coastal lands from Long Island Sound in the south to Newfoundland in the north.[3]