[[Image:us flag large Betsy Ross.png|right|thumb|Betsy Ross purportedly sewed the first Flag of the United States with 13 stars and 13 stripes representing each of the 13 colonies.]] The Thirteen Colonies were 13 British Empire colony in North America, separately chartered and governed, that signed the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and formally broke with the Kingdom of Great Britain, leading to the American Revolutionary War and the establishment of the United States. Other British North American possessions—the former French colony of Quebec and the colonies of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island—remained loyal to the British Crown and much later were united as Canada. The colonies of East Florida and West Florida also remained loyal during the American Revolution. ==The Thirteen Colonies== Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians): * New England: ** Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire and Vermont* ** Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine ** Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island ** Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut * 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 (before 1776, the "Lower Counties on Delaware"), later Delaware * Southern Colonies: ** Province of Maryland, later Maryland ** Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia ** Province of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee ** Province of South Carolina, later South Carolina ** Province of Georgia, later Georgia (U.S. state)* Vermont was an independent country from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. Today it is considered part of New England.
==Other British colonies in North America and the Caribbean in 1776==
Britain held several other colonies in North America and the Caribbean in 1776 which did not join the 13 in their American Revolution against the Crown.
Future Canadian provinces
* Nova Scotia (including present day New Brunswick)
* Newfoundland and Labrador
* Prince Edward Island, originally ''le Saint-Jean'' or St. John's Island (Canada)
* Quebec (including present day Ontario)
[[image:map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg|thumb|In 1775, the Britain claimed authority over both the red and pink areas on this map and Spain ruled the orange west of the Mississippi river. The red area is the area of the 13 colonies after the Proclamation of 1763. (Map produced by U.S. Dept. of Interior.)]]
Future American states
* East Florida
* West Florida
Future independent countries
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Jamaica
* Nevis, as part of Saint Kitts and Nevis
* St. Christopher, now Saint Kitts
Future British overseas territories
* Bermuda
* Cayman Islands
Other
* West Indies
==See also==
* British colonization of the Americas
* Colonial government in America
* History of the United States (1776-1789)#Independence and the American Revolution
* Upper Canada
* Lower Canada
==External links==
*[http://www.regiments.org/nations/namerica/namerica.htm British North American Colonies to 1783 - Military History & Institutions]
*[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents]
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==Division of the colonies== Are the colonies separated into 3 parts: New England, __, and __? --User:Menchi 07:00, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC) : Found it in a textbook: New E., Middle, and Southern. I'll add them to the article. --User:Menchi 07:02, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC) :: It's an artificial classification, but it is somewhat helpful, so I'm fine with it. Just bear in mind there was no formal distinction, although there were various divisions that drove certain decisions: north vs. south, and large state (especially population) vs. small state, but the 3 part division is reasonably helpful and the most common division made for this period of the United States as far as I can recall. I think the other distinctions I just mentioned are better placed on a US Constitional History page. User:Daniel Quinlan 08:23, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC) == Specific colony locations == What about linking directly to founding colonies, eg, Maryland (eg, St. Marie's City) Massachusetts (eg, Boston_Colony) Would that be appropriate ? -- Anon : I wouldn't link directly, but I would perhaps provide links to articles about each colony history. The history of Massachusetts, for example, goes far beyond the founding colony. User:Daniel Quinlan 08:00, Dec 12, 2003 (UTC) ==Why delink colony names?== Any reason for delinking all but four of the colony names? User:Jengod 00:26, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC) :The ones I delinked have been renamed to a single place which is already in wikipedia (and linked), so the most we'd have is a redundant redirect. User:Anthony DiPierro 00:28, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC) :The history of New Jersey is already in the New Jersey article. User:Anthony DiPierro 14:04, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC) ==Title== Moved article from ''13 colonies'' to ''Thirteen Colonies'' because: # style manuals seem to favor "13" being spelled out in this instance (see, for example, Chicago Manual of Style) # "thirteen colonies" returns slightly more results than "13 colonies" on Google (31,500 vs. 31,000) # "Colonies" should be capitalized because this is a formal historical term --User:Lowellian 00:57, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) :Which section of Chicago are you referring to? What is this instance? 9.3 or 9.5? User:Jengod 01:21, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) ::I don't have a copy of Chicago with me, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this one. Most manuals of style in the humanities and social sciences use one the spell-out-numbers-from-1-to-100 rule (though I grant that some other manuals use other, more complicated rules, such as the word-count rule wherein "twenty" is spelled out but "21" is not). There are numerous exceptions when those rules aren't applied and the number is spelled out, such as years, dollar amounts, percentages, page numbers, etc., but none of those exceptions apply in this case. --User:Lowellian 04:05, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) ==Heading== Why was the heading changed to "Et al."? I find that to be extremely confusing. What was wrong with the original heading of "Other British colonies in North America and the Caribbean in 1776"? --User:Lowellian 04:14, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) ==Help request== I'm working on a page which explains the western land claims surrended by the original Thirteen Colonies in the early years of the American republic. As I've researched, it's become clear to me that there would be no better way to do this than to have a map. Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this, has software which is helpful, digs cartography or knows where I can find a public domain version of this material? I've found several examples on the web. My vomit draft of the page--did I mention it was a vomit draft?--is at User:Jengod/State_cessions. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. * [http://www.geog.umn.edu/faculty/squires/courses/5361/Lectures/Private_Land_Ownership/state_claims.JPG State claims 1] * [http://www.utep.edu/kc3312/clymer/images/big17.jpg State claims 2] * [http://media.maps101.com/SUB/HGIFS/USAH052-H.gif State claims 3] * [http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/31/32716/figures/DIVI118.jpg State claims 4] * [http://www.oldmilford.com/images/westernclaims-big.jpg State claims 5] * [http://www.ohwy.com/history%20pictures/maps/land-claims.jpg State claims 6]
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[[Image:us flag large Betsy Ross.png|right|thumb|Betsy Ross purportedly sewed the first Flag of the United States with 13 stars and 13 stripes representing each of the 13 colonies.]] The Thirteen Colonies were 13 British Empire colony in North America, separately chartered and governed, that signed the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and formally broke with the Kingdom of Great Britain, leading to the American Revolutionary War and the establishment of the United States. Other British North American possessions—the former French colony of Quebec and the colonies of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island—remained loyal to the British Crown and much later were united as Canada. The colonies of East Florida and West Florida also remained loyal during the American Revolution. ==The Thirteen Colonies== Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians): * New England: ** Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire and Vermont* ** Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine ** Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island ** Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut * 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 (before 1776, the "Lower Counties on Delaware"), later Delaware * Southern Colonies: ** Province of Maryland, later Maryland ** Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia ** Province of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee ** Province of South Carolina, later South Carolina ** Province of Georgia, later Georgia (U.S. state)
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==Division of the colonies== Are the colonies separated into 3 parts: New England, __, and __? --User:Menchi 07:00, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC) : Found it in a textbook: New E., Middle, and Southern. I'll add them to the article. --User:Menchi 07:02, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC) :: It's an artificial classification, but it is somewhat helpful, so I'm fine with it. Just bear in mind there was no formal distinction, although there were various divisions that drove certain decisions: north vs. south, and large state (especially population) vs. small state, but the 3 part division is reasonably helpful and the most common division made for this period of the United States as far as I can recall. I think the other distinctions I just mentioned are better placed on a US Constitional History page. User:Daniel Quinlan 08:23, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC) == Specific colony locations == What about linking directly to founding colonies, eg, Maryland (eg, St. Marie's City) Massachusetts (eg, Boston_Colony) Would that be appropriate ? -- Anon : I wouldn't link directly, but I would perhaps provide links to articles about each colony history. The history of Massachusetts, for example, goes far beyond the founding colony. User:Daniel Quinlan 08:00, Dec 12, 2003 (UTC) ==Why delink colony names?== Any reason for delinking all but four of the colony names? User:Jengod 00:26, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC) :The ones I delinked have been renamed to a single place which is already in wikipedia (and linked), so the most we'd have is a redundant redirect. User:Anthony DiPierro 00:28, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC) :The history of New Jersey is already in the New Jersey article. User:Anthony DiPierro 14:04, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC) ==Title== Moved article from ''13 colonies'' to ''Thirteen Colonies'' because: # style manuals seem to favor "13" being spelled out in this instance (see, for example, Chicago Manual of Style) # "thirteen colonies" returns slightly more results than "13 colonies" on Google (31,500 vs. 31,000) # "Colonies" should be capitalized because this is a formal historical term --User:Lowellian 00:57, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) :Which section of Chicago are you referring to? What is this instance? 9.3 or 9.5? User:Jengod 01:21, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) ::I don't have a copy of Chicago with me, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this one. Most manuals of style in the humanities and social sciences use one the spell-out-numbers-from-1-to-100 rule (though I grant that some other manuals use other, more complicated rules, such as the word-count rule wherein "twenty" is spelled out but "21" is not). There are numerous exceptions when those rules aren't applied and the number is spelled out, such as years, dollar amounts, percentages, page numbers, etc., but none of those exceptions apply in this case. --User:Lowellian 04:05, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) ==Heading== Why was the heading changed to "Et al."? I find that to be extremely confusing. What was wrong with the original heading of "Other British colonies in North America and the Caribbean in 1776"? --User:Lowellian 04:14, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC) ==Help request== I'm working on a page which explains the western land claims surrended by the original Thirteen Colonies in the early years of the American republic. As I've researched, it's become clear to me that there would be no better way to do this than to have a map. Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this, has software which is helpful, digs cartography or knows where I can find a public domain version of this material? I've found several examples on the web. My vomit draft of the page--did I mention it was a vomit draft?--is at User:Jengod/State_cessions. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. * [http://www.geog.umn.edu/faculty/squires/courses/5361/Lectures/Private_Land_Ownership/state_claims.JPG State claims 1] * [http://www.utep.edu/kc3312/clymer/images/big17.jpg State claims 2] * [http://media.maps101.com/SUB/HGIFS/USAH052-H.gif State claims 3] * [http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/31/32716/figures/DIVI118.jpg State claims 4] * [http://www.oldmilford.com/images/westernclaims-big.jpg State claims 5] * [http://www.ohwy.com/history%20pictures/maps/land-claims.jpg State claims 6]
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