Part 4

1619 Negroes are first brought in as slaves.

1620 English Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.

1624 Walloons, from Netherlands, settle Fort Orange, now Albany, New York.

1626 Netherlanders establish New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.

1628 Persecuted Protestants establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1634 Lord Baltimore and a group of English Catholics arrive in Maryland.

1636 Roger Williams and his followers establish Rhode Island.

1636 Connecticut is founded by Thomas Hooker and his religious group.

1638 Swedes and Finns settle along the Delaware River.

1639 John Mason and his followers come to New Hampshire.

1654 Twenty-three Portuguese Jews land at New Amsterdam from Brazil.

1662 Huguenots settle in Massachusetts on the present site of Oxford.

1663 English nobles, with grant from Charles II, establish North Carolina.

1664 English capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.

1664 Berkeley, Carteret, and others establish New Jersey.

1670 English make first permanent settlement in South Carolina.

1670 French fur traders and missionaries come to the Mississippi Valley.

1679 French Huguenots settle in South Carolina.

1681 The Quakers, led by William Penn, settle Pennsylvania.

1682 The first Germans come to Pennsylvania.

1690 About 200 Scotch-Irish settle in Maryland.

1693 English help to settle 600 German-Swiss in North Carolina.

1699 The Acadians come to Louisiana and reach as far as Biloxi in present-day Mississippi.

1700 The Scotch-Irish settle along the frontiers.

1710 First German Protestants arrive in New York.

1719 Acadians establish New Orleans, Louisiana.

1720 Between 1720 and 1750, 60,000 Germans come to Pennsylvania.

1732 Oglethorpe founds Georgia.