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By the 1630s, numerous British colonies were strung along various parts of coastal America, North and South. From Guyana to Jamestown to Newfoundland the British had established colonies in the New World. Virginia Colony had been made a royal colony in 1624, Guyana and Newfoundland had mixed results, and New England had established a Puritan presence in the New World. Virginia and New England have been discussed elsewhere, so the remainder of the thirteen states that would become the United States are discussed here.
Colonies That Became States:
New Hampshire
During the 1630s, heavy-handedness among the colonial leaders at Massachusetts Bay as well as the great influx of immigrants created unrest among the inhabitants of that colony, but there was always motivation to expand. Former Governor of Newfoundland Colony John Mason applied for and received permission to form a colony north of Massachusetts that he named New Hampshire. The Abenaki peoples, who lived in longhouses much like other native peoples of the region, hunting, fishing, and farming for a living, occupied most of the area.
Maryland
In 1632, a grant was given by Charles I, whose wife was a French Catholic, to Lord Baltimore (Cecil Calvert) across Chesapeake Bay from Virginia and to the north of Jamestown. Baltimore named the colony Maryland for the last Catholic queen of England, Queen Mary, who had preceded Elizabeth I. In the relatively unrestricted environs of the New World, it was impossible to prevent Anglican and Presbyterian planters from migrating to Maryland. Basically a tobacco colony by 1649, it was in that year that the Maryland colonial legislature passed the Toleration Act, an agreement to not have an official religion for the colony.