Thirteen Colonies

"The Thirteen Colonies" was a historical region comprised of the thirteen British colonies in North America. Its borders ranged from the present-day Canadian province of Quebec to the present-day state of Georgia.

See Colonial America for the history.

Map of the British Colonies between 1755 and 1760 Full Size Image

List of historical colonies (in alphabetical order):

• Connecticut Colony (later Connecticut)
• Delaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware, and later Delaware)
• Province of Georgia (later Georgia)
• Province of Maryland (later Maryland)
• Province of Massachusetts Bay (later Massachusetts and Maine)
• Province of New Hampshire (later New Hampshire)
• Province of New Jersey (later New Jersey)
• Province of New York (later New York and Vermont)
• Province of North Carolina (later North Carolina and Tennessee)
• Province of Pennsylvania (later Pennsylvania)
• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (later Rhode Island)
• Province of South Carolina (later South Carolina)
• Colony and Dominion of Virginia (later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia)

Bibliography

• Cooke, Jacob Ernest, ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (3 vol 1993); authoritative overview of colonial America, including British, Spanish, French, and Dutch colonies
• Adams, James Truslow. The Founding of New England, (1921) online edition
• Osgood, Herbert L. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. 3 vol (1904-07) online edition
• Taylor, Alan. American Colonies, (2001} survey by leading scholar