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The colonies located in New England are: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneticut, and New Hampshire
Rocky soil makes farming difficult, long, cold winters and short, mild summers. Land was flat close to coast line, got hilly farther inland.
Fishing, tobacco crops, rice crops, and little usage of slaves. Main source of economy was using lumber to build ships.
Plymouth was first settlement. Pilgrims and Puritans were the only settlers there.
The religion practised in New England was strictly Puritan and they did not tolerate any other religions.
Some famous residents located in the New England colonies were: John Rolfe, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, and Rodger Williams.
The first attempt to colonize America was in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh on the island Roanoke.
The Plymouth settlement was founded in 1620, at Plymouth, Massachusetts by pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower. Later on this colony was strictly Puritan after the Puritans settled at Mass. Bay.
The Rhode Island Colony was founded by those who wanted to escape the lack of religious tolerance found in the other New England colonies. Its founder Rodger Williams was a former colonist and religious exile from the Mass. Bay colony, where tolerance did not exist among the Puritans.
Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay colony led 100 people to present-day Hartford in 1636. He and Thomas Hooker are often considered the founders of the Conneticut colony. The first written constitution in the new world was also written in Conneticut; it was called the Fundamental Orders of Conneticut.
New Hampshire was founded in 1622 whan John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges were given a land grant by the Council for New England. Only three years after the Pilgrim's landed at Plymouth, the first settlers arrived near presend-day Portsmouth in 1623. They were fisherman.