| Colony Name | Year Founded | Founded By | |
| Virginia | 1607 | London Company | |
| Massachusetts | 1620 | John Endicott and John Winthrop | |
| New Hampshire | 1623 | John Mason | |
| Maryland | 1634 | Lord Baltimore | |
| Connecticut | 1635 | Thomas Hooker | |
| Rhode Island | 1636 | Roger Williams | |
| Delaware | 1638 | Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company | |
| North Carolina | 1653 | Virginians | |
| South Carolina | 1663 | Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II | |
| New Jersey | 1664 | Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret | |
| New York | 1664 | Duke of York | |
| Pennsylvania | 1682 | William Penn | |
| Georgia | 1732 | James Edward Oglethorpe |