New England Colonies

New England Colonies
1620–1776
Map of the New England Colonies in 1755
Map of the New England Colonies in 1755
Historical eraBritish colonization of the Americas
Puritan migration to New England
American Revolution
1607
1620 the New England Colonies were established 1620
1620
• Founding of Boston
1630
1636
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]

  1. ^ Gipson
  2. ^ Bisceglia
  3. ^ Smith