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The 13 colonies refers to the thirteen British colonies in North America, separately chartered and governed, that signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and formally broke with the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United States.

The 13 Colonies

• New England:
  • New Hampshire Colony, later New Hampshire
  • Massachusetts Colony, later Massachusetts and Maine
  • Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island
  • Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut
• The Middle Colonies:
  • Province of New York, later New York and Vermont
  • Province of New Jersey, later New Jersey
  • Province of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania
  • Delaware Colony, later Delaware
• The Southern Colonies:
  • Province of Maryland, later Maryland
  • Virginia Colony, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia
  • North Carolina Colony, later North Carolina and Tennessee
  • South Carolina Colony, later South Carolina
  • Province of Georgia, later Georgia

Other British colonies in North America in 1776

• Nova Scotia
• Newfoundland
• Quebec (first held by British 1763)
• East Florida (first held by British in 1762)
• West Florida (first held by British in 1762)

See also

• British colonization of the Americas
• Colonial America
• Colonial government in America
• New Netherland
• Carteret County Colony

External links

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents