Where English Settlers Established Colonies in North America

English colonization concentrated along the Atlantic seaboard in four main regions:

1. New England

Plymouth (1620), Massachusetts Bay (1630), Connecticut (1636), Rhode Island (1636), New Hampshire (1623).

2. Mid-Atlantic

New Netherland → New York (1664), New Jersey (1664), Pennsylvania (1681), Delaware (1682).

3. Southern Colonies

Virginia (1607), Maryland (1634), North Carolina (1663), South Carolina (1670), Georgia (1732).

4. Caribbean

Barbados (1627), Jamaica (1655), Bahamas (1648), Leeward Islands.

These settlements formed the core of British America, later becoming the United States and Canada.