A charter is a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist. Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution...

constitution. The British monarch issued colonial charters that established either royal colonies, proprietary colonies, or corporate colonies. In every colony...

The Southern Colonies within British America consisted of the Province of Maryland, the Colony of Virginia, the Province of Carolina (in 1712 split into...

The Thirteen Colonies were the English colonies and later British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America which broke away from the British Crown...

still able to retain a liberal charter from England. Proprietary colony Royal colony Colonial charters in the Thirteen Colonies Somers Isles Company Providence...

Colonial American Wars includes military conflicts involving the Thirteen Colonies and their predecessor colonies from 1701 till 1774. It covers the colonies...

Colonial American Wars includes military conflicts involving the Thirteen Colonies and their predecessor colonies from 1609 till 1700. It covers the colonies...

The Middle Colonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Along...

until the unifying of the Thirteen British Colonies and creation of the United States in 1776, during the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England...

their citizenships in 1983, actually violated the rights granted them by royal charters at the founding of the colonies. Bermuda (fully The Somers Isles or...

the Crown via royal charters into one of three types of colony; proprietary colonies, charter colonies and Crown colonies. Under the proprietary system...

comprising the Thirteen Colonies in 1775 and 1776, before and as independence was declared. Continental currency banknotes displayed the name 'The United...

and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually...

Pennsylvania and the colonial era capital of the Thirteen Colonies, emerged as a major port, commercial city, and a central location for the thinking, writings...

The situation of the Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies was characterized by an extensive religious persecution originating from Protestant sects...

The Province of New Jersey was one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1776. The province had originally...

The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education founded in the Thirteen Colonies, predating the United States. As the only American universities...

The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen...

chattel property, and the condition of slavery as hereditary. The Thirteen Colonies of northern British America, were for much or all of the period less dependent...

The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered...

Initiated by Sons of Liberty activists in Boston in colonial Massachusetts, one of the original Thirteen Colonies in British America, it escalated hostilities...

paper used throughout the colonies, and it had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to pay for British...

in 1640 to 7,500 in 1760 (making Newport the fifth-largest city in the Thirteen Colonies at the time), and Newport grew further to 9,209 by 1774. The...

The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a colonial rebellion and war of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British rule to form the...

Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century...

Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern New England...

granted commercial charters by Kings James I, Charles I, and Charles II, and by the Parliament of Great Britain. Later, most colonies were founded, or converted...

American colonial printer and publisher in British America. Bradford is best known for establishing the first printing press in the Middle colonies of the Thirteen...

General Thomas Gage amid rising tensions between the Thirteen Colonies and the British Parliament. Gage was the province's last royal governor. He was effectively...

Colonial American military history is the military record of the Thirteen Colonies from their founding to the American Revolution in 1775. Beginning when...