What were the reasons that each of the original English Colonies were founded?

This is the information I have right now, I just need some expansion and details.

Massachussetts-Religious freedom for Puritans

New Hampshire-Escape for those constricted by religious and economic rules

New York-Trade and profits

Rhode Island-Religious freedom

Connecticut-Religious and economic freedom

New Jersey-Trade and profits

Pennsylvania-Religious freedom for Quakers; trade and profits

Delaware-Trade and profits

Maryland-Religious freedom for Catholics

Virginia-Trade and profits

North Carolina-Trade and profits

South Carolina-Trade and profits

Georgia-Debtor colony. Buffer for Spanish colonies Restrictions on blacks, size of plantations kept colony small.What were the reasons that each of the original English Colonies were founded?
Sorry, most all of the colonies were made up of devout people who wanted to live their faith without persecution. They were not running from people because they wanted to be atheists. They wanted to practice their religions without anyone else telling them anything about it.



That is why the US was started with the idea of no establishment of a state religion. This was NOT to prevent religion from being practiced and preached and loved. They all loved religion. They merely had different faiths among the founding fathers and knew they would never get anything accomlished if they ESTABLISHED one religion as better than the others or more important or the official religion of America. They knew they would never be able to agree if they let their strong religious faiths get in the way.



Sorry, the trade and profits thing is pretty much secondary in a lot of ways.



Our public education system continues to fail us so much.What were the reasons that each of the original English Colonies were founded?
Half to the Colonies you list were founded by the Dutch, not the English. The New England States were originally all Dutch Colonies for over 200 years and England gained ownership through the Treaty of Westminster in 1674 in a trade for Suriname from the English.

Some like present day New York was founded by the French and then taken over by the Dutch who named it New Amsterdam. It was the Dutch who purchased Manhatten Island from the Indians.

And you do know that the Pilgrims were Dutch, of the 101 colonist, only 47 were English and they had moved from England to Holland 20 yrs. before coming to America. They set sail from Leyden Holland representing the Netherlands and established the Colony of Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, Later they moved the Colony to Plymouth, Mass.

Their goal was not religious freedom, but to establish a fur trade for the Dutch West Indies Trading Company who financed the expedition. The 47 Former English pilgrims were escaping religious persecution, but the purpose of the mission was to establish a Fur Trading Outpost. It was the fur trade that caused the Dutch to spend the money to establish the colonies. Without the fur trade, the Dutch had no incentive to pay the way to America for a bunch of poor people who couldn't afford a boat or supplies on their own.

In many of the colonies you had to belong to the particular faith of the colonist living there or you could not stay. It was anything except religious freedom. Read some of the Chalky Files, (Records Kept by the Colonist) and they required religious affidavitts from colonist before they allowed them into the colony to trade.

Anyone in Europe could move to the new colonies and they became a haven for people who were wanted for various crimes in Europe. The new colonies had so many wanted people using assumed names that the Dutch began calling colonist Yohan Keese (John Cheese) ridiculing the colonist for using assumed names to hide their true identity. Later when the English gained possession of the colonies, they continued to use the term to describe Americans, but pronounced it Yankees.

The English founded colonies were along the South East Coast in Virginia south to the carolinas.