. A history of the United States. laces on Massachusetts Bay. 1634. Baltimore starts a settlement at St. Marys. 1636. Emigrants from Massachusetts begin the towns of Connecticut. 1636. Roger Williams and other exiles from Massachusetts found settle-ments in Rhode Island. 1638. Puritans from England found a colony at New Haven. 1665. The proprietors of New Jersey begin the active settlement of a newcolony. Earlier settlers had established themselves at variousplaces. 1670. The proprietors of the Carolinas found Charleston, though not thefirst settlement in the Carolinas. 1681. Penn sends a body
. A history of the United States. laces on Massachusetts Bay. 1634. Baltimore starts a settlement at St. Marys. 1636. Emigrants from Massachusetts begin the towns of Connecticut. 1636. Roger Williams and other exiles from Massachusetts found settle-ments in Rhode Island. 1638. Puritans from England found a colony at New Haven. 1665. The proprietors of New Jersey begin the active settlement of a newcolony. Earlier settlers had established themselves at variousplaces. 1670. The proprietors of the Carolinas found Charleston, though not thefirst settlement in the Carolinas. 1681. Penn sends a body of Quakers to Pennsylvania. Philadelphia foundedin 1682. 1733. Oglethorpe begins a settlement at Savannah, Georgia. CHAPTER XII HOW THE COLONISTS LIVED Changes in Manner of Living. — As the colonists increasedin number the principal settlements changed in , New York, Philadelphia, and a few other placesbegan to resemble EngHsh cities. The well-to-do builthouses much hke those which were being built by the Lou-. Home OF A Prosperous Colonist in the South don merchants of the time. Some of them are still standing.^The cities, however, were small, Philadelphia, the largest,having only 20,000 inhabitants. On the new frontier the settlers lived like the first inhabi-tants of Plymouth or Jamestown. They hunted, fished, ^ Houses built in that style of architecture are called colonial. In Eng-land they are called Georgian, because built in the time of King George I orGeorge II. The English Georgian houses were commonly of brick, while thecolonial houses were often of wood. 122 HOW THE COLONISTS LIVED and raised a few articles of food. Some of them were busiedwith the fur trade, which was no longer carried on in theolder settlements. Differences between the Colonies. — The colonies alsodiffered from one another, because of differences in cUmateor in the nature of the soil. In South CaroHna rice, andlater indigo and cotton, could be raised. In Virginia themain crop
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