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| 1632 |
| | | Maryland is granted to Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Roman Catholics | |
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| 1633 |
| | | Williamsburg, first known as Middle Plantation, is founded in Virginia | |
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| 1636 |
| | | North America's first university is founded at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and soon receives a large bequest from John Harvard | |
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| 1636 |
| | | Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance | |
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| 1637 |
| | | War between English colonists and Pequot Indians brings disaster to the Pequots but safeguards the settlement of Connecticut | |
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| 1639 |
| | | Richard Fairbanks, given responsibility for delivering mail in Massachusetts, is allowed to charge a penny per letter | |
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| 1640 |
| | | The first book published in England's American colonies is Bay Psalm Book, a revised translation of the psalms | |
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| 1644 |
| | | The Powhatan leader Opechancanough launches another surprise attack on the Virgiinia settlements, killing about 500 colonists | |
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| 1646 |
| | | The aged Powhatan leader Opechancanough is captured by the English and executed, ending the last significant Indian threat to Virginia | |
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| 1647 |
| | | Peter Stuyvesant begins a 17-year spell as director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America | |
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