What were the first 13 colonies?
The Thirteen Colonies were British colonies in North America founded between 1607 (Virginia), and 1732 (Georgia). Although Great Britain held several other colonies in North America and the West Indies, the colonies referred to as the “thirteen” are those that rebelled against British rule in 1775 and proclaimed their independence as the United States of America on July 4, 1776. Contemporaneous documents usually listed the colonies of British North America in geographical order, from north to south. New England Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut.
