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The Colonies · A Chronology

Colonial America: A Chronology

From Roanoke to Georgia. The founding of English America — the lost colony of Roanoke, the settlements at Jamestown and Plymouth, the Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay, and the growth of the thirteen colonies, year by year.

1587
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