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Even when the dates and detail is in your face on your own link you'll deny what it says...
So even according to that, Colonists were already here as early as 1607
Yes they were
...which means the 13 Colonies were established.
Not according to the dates.
The Mayflower didn't arrive until 1620. Colonization had already begun.
True and undisputed but YOU said all 13 colonies were already in place years BEFORE the Mayflower arrived in 1620.
"In
1623 two groups of English settlers, sent by Captain John Mason, arrived in what is now called New Hampshire and
established a fishing village near the mouth of the Piscataqua River."
"New Jersey was originally settled in
1623 by the Dutch as New Netherlands."
"Although the Dutch West India Co. explored and began to settle the New York area as early as 1614, the principal occupation of the area did not occur until
1624..."New Amsterdam was granted self government and incorporated by the Dutch in 1653....In
1664, after King Charles II decided to reclaim the territory between Virginia and New England"
"In
1632 Charles I granted a Maryland Charter to Lord Baltimore (George Calvert, Baron of Baltimore). Lord Baltimore wanted very much to see the Colony become a reality and his son Cecil saw to it that the new Colony was settled. In
1633 the first group of settlers set sail for Maryland to
establish a colony."
Rhode Island: "While scattered Europeans began to settle the area as early as 1620, the first permanent settlement wasn't established until
1636."
"Dutch traders had established a permanent
settlement near Hartford, CT as early as
1633."
"In
1631, the
first settlement was attempted in Delaware by Dutch traders led by Captain David Pietersen de Vries. By 1632 the party had been killed in a dispute with the local natives."
"North Carolina's outer banks were the scene of the first British colonizing efforts in North America. Both attempts, in the late 1500's, to form a colony on Roanoke Island did not succeed....
Virginia colonists began to settle the North Carolina region in
1653 to provide a buffer for the southern frontier. In
1691 Albermarle, the northern Carolina region, was
officially recognized by the English crown."
"In
1663 King Charles II
created the colony of Carolina (named for King Charles II) by granting the territory, of what is now roughly North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia,..."
"As early as 1647, settlement occurred on what is now Pennsylvania soil by Swedish, Dutch and English settlers in the Delaware River region. In
1681 however, Pennsylvania's
colonial status was sealed when approximately the present state of Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn..."
"There were a few Spanish settlements along the coast, north of Florida, in the 16th and early 17th century but what is now Georgia was originally just the southern portion of the Carolina grant. Hoping to provide a second chance for adventurous members of the English under class, King George II, in 1732, granted Georgia to James Edward Oglethorpe, an English general. In addition to its lofty social goals the new Colony was also intended to provide additional protection for its northern colonial partners. Prior to Oglethorpe and his party settling the area in
1733, Fort King George was the only English occupation in the area. The Fort, which was established in
1721...One of the Southern Colonies, Georgia started out as a Proprietary colony but eventually became a
Royal colony in
1752..."