Looking back on the early colonial period one can't help but wonder how three regions so different could eventually come together to form a Union that would reshape the world. Even within the three regions sub-regions developed that had profound effects on the development of the colonies and eventually on the new republic itself.
An Overview of the Regional Development of the Colonies of North America:
If you have not yet read the brief piece from Jerome Reiche's book Colonial America, please read it here.
Three Colonial Regions
Northern Region:
New England
The Founding of the Plymouth Colony - From Conceived in Liberty
The Puritans Purify Theocracy in Massachusetts
The Thanksgiving myth - obviously not an objective piece but accurate nonetheless.
The Massachusetts Bay Company/Colony
The Puritans
The Salem Witch Trials - Wikipedia
The ideals of the Puritans eventually began to form the core of a theocratic rule where the church controlled more and more the direction of governance within the colony. This reality led to the formation of groups that bucked the religious establishment. Tow leaders within this system were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams. Both eventually were formally banned and both went on to form countervailing forces within the colonies. Leading toward the days of the Awakening when the forces of individual spirituality would come to predominate the more traditional (puritanical) theocracy imposed by the Puritan religious leaders.
Anne Hutchinson is Banished from the Colony
Wikipedia Biography
US History Biography
Roger Williams is Banished and founds Rhode Island
Biography
Wikipedia Bio
Family Biography and Association
Resources:
Chronicles of the First Plymouth Colony - Google Books
Mourts Relation - Plymouth Plantation - Google Books
Middle Region
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey
The Middle Colonies Overview - Cerritos College, CA
William Penn and the Middle Colonies
Penn - The MLK of the Colonial World
Southern Regions
Virginia, Georgia, The Carolinas
The Virginia Company
From Company to Royal Colony
The Social Structures of Virginia
Part 1
Part 2
Bacon's Rebellion
A precoursor to Revolution or an act of insurrection and oppression?
Timeslines:
Horizontal Timeline - quite useful
Scarborough HS
The Avalon Project - Yale University has collected important documents by chronology
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