Thirteen Colonies

When the Thirteen Colonies, those British colonies in North America referred to in the Declaration of Independence of the United States renounced in 1776 from the mother country Great Britain. Other British possessions in North America, as the former French colony of Quebec and the colonies of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Iceland remained loyal to the British Crown, and were later incorporated as Canada. The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal also during the American Revolutionary War.

Supposedly Betsy Ross sewed the first flag of the United States with 13 stars and 13 stripes, each representing one of the 13 colonies.

The Thirteen Colonies

Contemporary documents list the colonies almost always in geographical order on, roughly from north to south, as in the following ( the division into three regions is a later construct of historians ):

  • New England Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire
  • Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine Province
  • Colony of Rhode Iceland and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Iceland
  • Colony of Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut later
  • Province of New York, later New York and Vermont
  • Province of New Jersey, later New Jersey
  • Province of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania
  • Delaware Colony ( before 1776, the Lower Counties on the Delaware as a by- country of Pennsylvania), later Delaware
  • Province of Maryland, later Maryland
  • Colony and domain Virginia, later Virginia and West Virginia
  • Province of North Carolina, later North Carolina
  • Province of South Carolina, later South Carolina
  • Province of Georgia, later Georgia

Strictly speaking, correspond to the 13 colonies already 16 of the 50 states of the USA today.

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