William Penn founded the Colony of Pennsylvania to give religious freedom to him and the other Quakers and to give them the right to worship as they please.
the mayflower found colony
One reason was for religious minorities.
It was planned to be a fishing export colony.
John Wheelwright did not found a Colony on his own. He was a religious leader in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for a while, but was banished from there. He and his wife, who was the main reason for the banishment, founded the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.
It was founded for the space it had to dock boats and for a religious reason.
Massachusetts was founded for religious freedom.this is the best answer.
It was supposed to become a fishing empire in the New World.
The last colony to be founded in America was the colony of Georgia
The reason for founding the colony of Connecticut was for more religious and economic freedom. Thomas Hooker founded this colony in 1636 in Hartford when he and his congregation left Massachusetts after a disagreement with Puritan leaders.
Sally Wirth founded the colony of Liberia
William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania
Any colony that was started for religious freedom was started for the same reason as the Massachusetts Bay colony and the Pilgrims.