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The Dutch, Scots-Irish, English, Swedish, Quakers, Germans, and the Puritans. They settled here because of the religious freedom, and the farming.

New York- Duke of York to build a colony on land captured from the Dutch in 1664

New Jersey-John Berkely, George Carteret to build a colony on land captured from the Dutch in 1664

Pennsylvania- William Penn to establish a Quaker colony in North America in 1682

Delaware-William Penn to trade and farm in 1704

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