History: The Case Of Roanoke

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There were Thirteen colonies that survived and came together to form the United States of America, those colonies are, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. There are other colonies such as Roanoke, where the settlements failed to survive and all the settlers died. In the case of Roanoke, no one knows what happened to it’s colonists. All the colonies had their own laws and government, but eventually united to become one.
New Hampshire was formed when Captain John Mason was given a land grant in 1622. The colony of New Hampshire was dominated by puritans and they didn’t tolerate any other religion. In the beginnings,

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