The first British colony in America was the one on Roanoke Island. (NC)
The first settlers arrived in Georgia in 1733 when the British established the colony. James Oglethorpe led the initial group of colonists who settled in Savannah.
Connecticut became a colony in 1636 by Thomas and a group of Massachusetts colonists.
COlonists
The group is called a "colony,"
The group of people who formed Georgia were colonists that were in jail. The colonists didn't want to have the people there so they made them their own colony.
Maryland was founded first by Cecilius Calvert, or otherwise known as the 2nd Baron Baltimore.
To get a colony started for the others.
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Jamestown was the first permanent British settlement in North America. In 1607 (the beginning of the 17th century), John Smith led the group of colonists to found the colony for King James I.
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puritans colony
they established the Plymouth colony