Answer:
During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the English poor increased rapidly in number.
The New England Colonies included Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
England's first attempt to establish a colony occurred in 1607 off the coast of Maine by the Plymouth Company, but it failed. Plymouth Colony was not established until 1620.
Plymouth Colony was established by Puritans, a group of English separatists. This colony did not become one of the original 13 colonies, and later was de-established.
Henry Hudson, employed by the Dutch, ignored the land claims of England, discovered both the Hudson and Delaware rivers in 1609, and established colonies along them.
