| COLONY |
YEAR |
FOUNDER |
ADMITTED |
| Virginia |
1607 |
London
Company |
06/25/1788 |
| Massachusetts |
1620 |
Puritans |
02/06/1788 |
| New
Hampshire |
1623 |
John
Wheelwright |
06/21/1788 |
| Maryland |
1634 |
Lord
Baltimore |
04/28/1788 |
| Connecticut |
1635 |
Thomas
Hooker |
01/09/1788 |
| Rhode
Island |
1636 |
Roger
Williams |
05/29/1790 |
| Delaware |
1638 |
Peter
Minuit & New Sweden Company |
12/07/1787 |
| North
Carolina |
1653 |
Virginians |
11/21/1789 |
| South
Carolina |
1663 |
Eight Nobles With A Royal Charter From Charles II | 05/23/1788 |
| New
Jersey |
1664 |
Lord
Berkeley and Sir George Carteret |
12/18/1787 |
| New
York |
1664 |
Duke
of York |
07/26/1788 |
| Pennsylvania |
1682 |
William
Penn |
12/12/1787 |
| Georgia |
1732 |
James
Eward Oglethorpe |
01/02/1788 |
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