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Thirteen original colonies - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Thirteen original colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Original North American colonies that signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1776. |
 | | English adventurer Walter Raleigh founded the first English colony in 1585, in the territory he named Virginia, after the ‘Virgin Queen’, Elizabeth I. The colony failed, but in 1607 a second Virginian colony was established at Jamestown, by John Smith. |
 | | Georgia, founded in 1733 by English philanthropist James Oglethorpe as a colony for the industrious poor, was the last of the 13 original colonies to be chartered. |
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