New England Colonies

New England Colonies
1620–1776
Map of the New England Colonies in 1755
Historical era	British colonization of the Americas Puritan migration to New England American Revolution
• Popham Colony	1607
• Council for New England founded	1620 the New England Colonies were established 1620
• Landing of the Mayflower	1620
• Founding of Boston	1630
• Providence Plantations	1636
• New England Confederation formed	1643
• Dominion of New England	1686-1689
• British troops leave Boston	1776
• Reorganized as part of the United Colonies	1776

The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually became five of the six states in New England, with Plymouth Colony absorbed into Massachusetts and Maine separating from it.^[1]

In 1616, Captain John Smith authored A Description of New England, which first applied the term "New England"^[2] to the coastal lands from Long Island Sound in the south to Newfoundland in the north.^[3]