Because they wanted religious freedom from the British government
Indentured Servants. These were people who worked for a certain number of years to pay for their voyage to America.
New England's strong religious values restricted settlement far from the center of town, while Virginia's pursuit of wealth pushed settlers to the coast, and away from others.
For about 250 years, the British East India Company evolved from a company chartered by the British Crown to trade with the East Indies into de facto British administrator of India, which set off the era of British colonization of the Indian Subcontinent. Your welcome