| Colony Name | Year Founded | Founded By | Became Royal Colony |
| Virginia | 1607 | London Company | 1624 |
| Massachusetts | 1620 - Plymouth Colony 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Puritans | 1691 |
| New Hampshire | 1623 | John Wheelwright | 1679 |
| Maryland | 1634 | Lord Baltimore | N/A |
| Connecticut | c. 1635 | Thomas Hooker | N/A |
| Rhode Island | 1636 | Roger Williams | N/A |
| Delaware | 1638 | Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company | N/A |
| North Carolina | 1653 | Virginians | 1729 |
| South Carolina | 1663 | Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II | 1729 |
| New Jersey | 1664 | Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret | 1702 |
| New York | 1664 | Duke of York | 1685 |
| Pennsylvania | 1682 | William Penn | N/A |
| Georgia | 1732 | James Edward Oglethorpe | 1752 |
For more information about the original thirteen colonies and colonial life check out the following resources:
Overview of Colonial American History
Top Ten Books About Early Colonial History
Characteristics of New England Colonies
Colonial Williamsburg Life (food, religion, tools, manners, etc.)
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The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the American Colonists against the British government. They staged the protest by boarding three trade ships in Boston Harbor and throwing the ships' cargo of tea overboard into the ocean. They threw 342 chests of tea into the water. Some of the colonists were disguised as Mohawk Indians, but the costumes didn't fool anyone. The British knew who had destroyed the tea.
