Editing Thirteen Colonies (section)

=== New England colonies ===
{{main|New England Colonies}}
[[File:Roanoke map 1584.JPG|thumb|A 1584 map of the [[East Coast of the United States|east coast]] from [[Chesapeake Bay]] to [[Cape Lookout (North Carolina)|Cape Lookout]], drawn by the English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer [[John White (colonist and artist)|John White]]; in 1607, [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], the first permanent [[British colonization of the Americas|English settlement]], was established in this region.]]
#[[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], [[Massachusetts Charter|chartered]] as a [[crown colony|royal colony]] in 1691
#* [[Popham Colony]], established in 1607; abandoned in 1608
#* [[Plymouth Colony]], established in 1620; merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691
#* [[Province of Maine]], patent issued in 1622 by [[Council for New England]]; patent reissued by [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] in 1639; absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony by 1658
#* [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], established in 1628; merged with Plymouth Colony in 1691
#[[Province of New Hampshire]], established in 1629; merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1641; chartered as royal colony in 1679
#[[Connecticut Colony]], established in 1636; [[History of the Connecticut Constitution|chartered]] as royal colony in 1662
#*[[Saybrook Colony]], established in 1635; merged with Connecticut Colony in 1644
#*[[New Haven Colony]], established in 1638; merged with Connecticut Colony in 1664
#[[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]] [[Rhode Island Royal Charter|chartered]] as royal colony in 1663
#*Providence Plantations established by [[Roger Williams]] in 1636
#*[[Portsmouth, Rhode Island|Portsmouth]] established in 1638 by [[John Clarke (Baptist minister)|John Clarke]], [[William Coddington]], and others
#*[[Newport, Rhode Island|Newport]] established in 1639 after a disagreement and split among the settlers in Portsmouth
#*[[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warwick]] established in 1642 by [[Samuel Gorton]]
#*These four settlements merged into a single Royal colony in 1663

Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven Colonies formed the [[New England Confederation]] in 1643, and all New England colonies were included in the [[Dominion of New England]] (1686–1689).