Thirteen Colonies

Thirteen colonies, separately chartered and governed, in signing the

Declaration of Independence formally broke with England to form the

United States in the late 18th century.

• New Hampshire

• Massachusetts

• Rhode Island

• Connecticut

• New York

• New Jersey

• Pennsylvania

• Delaware

• Maryland

• Virginia

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Georgia

This content should live on whatever the proper (historians') name for the colonies is--American colonies, perhaps.