13 Colonies

A colony is a territory or settlement under the political and economic control of a distant parent country. The term also broadly refers to a group of individuals (people, animals, or microorganisms) of the same species living together in close association

On May 14, 1607, approximately 105 colonists from the Virginia Company settled on a peninsula along the James River, where they founded Jamestown. It became Britain's first permanent settlement in the New World and the first capital of what would later become the colony of Virginia.

What followed was a struggle among European powers for control of the territory that now forms the eastern United States. England, the Netherlands, France, and Spain all sought to establish and expand their North American colonies. Ultimately, the British emerged as the dominant colonial power. They seized New Netherland—including present-day Delaware, New York, and New Jersey—from the Dutch, limited Spanish expansion northward from Florida by establishing the colony of Georgia, and took control of France's vast North American territories following the French and Indian War.

1. Virginia (1607)
2. Massachusetts (1620)
3. New Hampshire (1623)
4. New York (1624)
5. Maryland (1634)
6. Connecticut (1635)

Note: Psalm 24:1 (NIV): The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

Deuteronomy 10:14: Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it."

1 Chronicles 29:11: Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours.