"Enslaved people" [Jamestown] *Indentured* people, you mean. Chattel slavery came later in the 17th century, at least to Virginia. This practice was imported from the Carolinas IIRC, and that from Barbados.
That's a fair distinction. Slavery as such was practiced in colonial Virginia by the time of the revolution for sure, but perhaps I left out too much about the timing of the transition from a system of indentured servitude to one of slavery as we usually think of it.
@@SignoreGalileiFour Ross' (6?) were taken as Indentured Servants by the Crown in the 1650s and Sent to Massachusetts. See there was a Small Rebellion in the UK, and the Crown put that Rebellion down Easily enough and did not Punish a Single Man after they all Surrendered, accept those Ross', because the Stewart King was Steaming and a Bit Hurt, that Ross', his cousins would Participate in such against him! See it was the Chief of the Great Clan Ross the 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross (1st to take on our surname, a name was Protected by Law across the Empire) who's daughter married the 1st Stewart King and was the Matriarch of the Royal Stewart Bloodline (although that caused a War with the Ross' & Laird of the Isles against the Stewarts for the next Generation). Than after the official Advent of Surnames some Generations later with Ross' having a Surname for Generations already, all Ross that could not Prove their Pedigree by Paperwork became MacKenzies, some say to Reduce Clan Ross (all the Gentry of the once Great Clan Ross) in size and power and further supplement the MacKenzies who partially replaced us within Ross-shire particularly in Wester Ross, but also because the King didn't like having so many Cousins that had fallen into commonality, as with Regular Random people taking on the Ross surname across the Isle so all Ross' had to have Proof of Pedigree in Paperwork. However so good upon our Generations were we that no amount of Titles or Spots for Squire could keep up with us so you can imagine by the 1650s many Ross' had fallen into Commonality again, so it's not like those Ross' taken as Indentured Servants knew the King(?) or were part of the Gentry(?) Otherwise they wouldn't of been all Pissed Off and Rebelling with Everyone Else.
It’s interesting how broad the definition of “colony” was, where some were individual towns and others were vast swathes of territory that are now states (or multiple states)
My general criterion was to include a colony if it was started by a separate group of people, especially if it had its own colonial charter. There were a bunch of settlements in Virginia that I was on the fence about including, but I chose to leave them out in the end (mostly so I could finish the video without it taking even longer).
Literally, any group of settlers from another place constitutes a colony. You see it in "art colony" and "nudist colony". Author Serge Trifkovic argues that later, the British Empire got the terms reversed-- the "Dominions" were really the colonies, i.e., settlers, and the "Colonies" the dominions, i.e., lording it over other peoples.
You forgot the Transylvania colony in what was Kentucky and parts of Tennessee. It was rejected at the behest of the Virginia colony as part of their agreement to join the colonies during the revolutionary war. Daniel Boone and others (including members of my family) were part of that original land grant.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention - I seem to have missed a few real and proposed colonies past the Appalachians. I'll put something up in the description, at least.
When New Brunswick succeeded from Nova Scottish after the revolution, they were called New Ireland and they claimed that part of Maine as theirs. The colonies from Massachusetts to Virginia were used to more autonomy/independence due to the English civil war and many other things happening during the 1600s and 1700s so they were self made, more developed, and didn’t like England reorganizing and changing everything every time they got involved like every 30 years instead of constant authority or just self rule in England. This also shows during American history until 1950 when America was a British(mainly English) nation culturally, religiously, and all other regards.
@BXMKE No, I am not talking about New Brunswick which was founded in 1790, but New Ireland founded in 1779. The governor of the colony was Brigadier Francis McLean and it claimed the territory of northern modern Maine from the Nova Scotia (modern day New Brunswick) to Penobscot Bay. The Beitish held this territory until the end of the war in 1783, when it was seceded to these United States. Massachusetts tried to the capture the territory in the failed Penobscot Expedition.
@@donkeyslayer9879 what did they betray your gay ideology? american is just an ideology it's not a people it's not a language it's exactly the same as communism
Yeah, I thought it was going to be about the British North America colony (I.e: us here in Canada) and how it “got away”. 🙄 No, we don’t want to join the US and never have. Probably the 1950’s would have been the best time to integrate Canada into the US, but since then Canada has stayed relatively progressive whilst the US keeps going further right. And now they slap tariffs on us. Not cool.
I am related to Lord De La Warr; he's in the genealogy book of The Shelton family. My paternal grandmother was a Shelton. They first settled in Virginia in the early 1600s.
One think you missed is that Plymouth was actually fully independent as a colony up until the dominion of New England where it was annexed by Massachusetts, because Plymouth never had a charter much like Delaware because the pilgrims were actually supposed to land in the northern bounds of the Virginia colony at Governor’s Island in NYC (this is why had to sign the mayflower compact to ensure people followed the rules) they were absorbed and when they tried to regain independence again by petitioning the crown they said no and that’s why we didn’t get our 14th state in Plymouth.
My 6X Grandmother was born in Little Compton, Plymouth Colony in 1690. The following year she was living in Little Compton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, then after 1747 (if i am remembering the year correctly) she lived in Little Compton, Rhode Island, yet always lived within a few miles of where she was born.
@ yeah pretty much, but the border dispute between RI and MA wasn’t fully resolved until after independence. It was actually in 1838 when they finally fixed it and decided that the 1717-1718 boundaries would be the official boundary.
The merger occurred in 1692. The former boundary between Plymouth and Massachusetts can be seen today as a diagonal line on a map showing MA counties and their boundaries.
Funny sidenote of interest (?) When king george 3 later added the red "x" representing ireland to the flag, creating the union jack, the red x of ireland is actually the fitzgerald family crest, often called, ( somewhat mistakenly) the " saint patrick's cross". The Fitzgeralds ( geraldines) came over with william the conqueror in 1066 and remained close to the royals in trusted positions, close to them. When the family married into the Twdyrs in Wales, they became cousins, then were moved to ireland to oversee cork and kerry. So that x is my grandpas family crest on the union jack, put there by their distant cousin
It is my understanding that George Washington also wanted the colonies of Nova Scotia, Barbados, and Newfoundland to join with our original 13. The three didn't want to have anything to do with the deal (like most of the original 13 themselves) and rejected the call. But it would have been very interesting if they had joined way back when.
A very forgotten colony was Portuguese Newfoundland. Some reports claim thay Portugal was fishing there as early as 1450/70, but kept it a secret because of the whole Spanish ordeal and treaties. There are also some Portuguese vestigies left behind from that era.
You forgot the forgotten colony of Fort San Juan. It was established in 1567 near the Cherokee town of Joara (near modern Morganton, NC). It was the first attempt of a permanent inland Spanish settlement in North America.
Yes--if not at the end, could you put it in comments. I realize as is pointed out in comments that the line is somewhat arbitrary, but having a tally of what you included by your original categories would still be useful.
I wish you talked a bit more about the other European colonies found outside of the Atlantic seaboard. French Louisiana, Spanish Louisiana, the Spanish provinces of Texas, New Mexico and (Alta) California, Russian Alaska and the Russian settlements along the Pacific Northwest (reaching as far south as Fort Ross in modern-day California), etc. I understand that America (as a nation) originated on the Atlantic seaboard, but the influence other European colonies and their descendants have on modern-day America is understated.
"West Florida" reached to the Mississippi, where they still speak of the "Florida parishes". Like New Sweden, it was relatively small, but included parts of four modern states.
Thank you for this video. This is a subject that I have always been extremely curious about, because I had heard of certain European powers aside from the known ones, such as the English, French, or Spanish setting up ports inside of what would become the East Coast, and wondered what the story was behind them. Thank you.
Nova Scotia was founded before Georgia, and about the same time as Carolina was divided into two separate colonies. In 1763 Nova Scotia was decreed to include contemporary territories of PEI [and, also: contemporary Cape Breton Island, and New Brunswick]. PEI was called St John's Island, and separated into a separate colony in 1769. Both Nova Scotia and St John's Isle were part of the American Revolutionary Wars, and remained loyal; New Brunswick was formed from the Western half of Nova Scotia in 1784.
What about Nova Scotia, New found land, and upper and lower Canada? You missed a huge part of America's forgotten Colonies... the orginal 17 colonies. Not just the 13
Friendly reminder that even the borders shown on the video were very finicky, and they were mostly defined to their east, and it was free game from any land west.
Let’s get this straight In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. Yes there was the Lost Colony at Roanoke, Va. But it is still lost. Queen Elizabeth I wouldn’t allow a resupply ship to try to the colony because of the Spanish. Also the Virginia colony didn’t bring slaves with them from England. That didn’t happen until years later when the Portuguese who were trading with African slavers had a ship that survived a storm and would up in Jamestown, Va.
Surprisingly they weren't forgotten they just weren't part of the original 13. So I don't think I watch the rest of this since the guy started with the wrong premise.
Okay I was just shocked for a second. I had to check my ancestry tree like 10 times. 7:57 is the trial of my 9th great grandmother. That is her paining. I’m absolutely blown away
Thank you for a great video. The problem I tend to find is that people fall in love with the myths of history, rather than the history itself. Most times, it’s propaganda which has later become part of the self esteem of the nation or person in question. This can often lead to a lack of funding for ongoing efforts due to short term thinking. “Why look further? We know everything already.” History is an ongoing discipline with new tools and new avenues to present this information and gain new perspectives. This video is a great video on rarely discussed colonial history. Look forward to viewing your other content.
5:45 It’s Pork Roll and I’ll die on that hill. If you don’t agree, let me ask you this: Why is it called the “Pork Roll Festival” and not the “Taylor Ham Festival” despite taking place in Trenton where Taylor Provisions is headquartered?
I agree with expanded out the definition of colonies, but there seem to be some omissions and nuances that are missing. The Northern Marianas are included but not Hawaii? The current situation of Puerto Rico seems like a glaring omission. Also the outlines of colonies are a super mixed bag: some outlines are modern state borders (like the tip of northern Maine which was contested for a long time) or like western New York (which was still controlled by the Iroquois Confederacy).
You have some good points - here's why I made the choices I did. The outlines were mostly dictated by what I could get on a map - boundaries were pretty fuzzy at that point in history. Hawaii was independent up through American annexation, and Puerto Rico is still a colony (at least approximately) so I figured it wouldn't be a forgotten colony.
@@SignoreGalilei That makes sense.(though Hawaii was a "territory" which I think counted as a non-self-governing territory). Though I think there is still something missing in the definitional negotiation between colonies, settler colonialism, and indigenous agency, especially when it it just limited to European perspectives. Which, in all fairness, is a lot to ask for.
Maybe you could do another video about the other British colonies in North America who existed in 1776, but for various reasons choose not to join the American Revolution. East and West Florida, the Bahamas, Vermont (stayed neutral and joined the US later), Nova Scotia (which then included modern New Brunswick and PEI), Newfoundland, and Quebec (British owned but French-speaking and included most of modern Ontario and down into the Ohio valley). That makes 9 British colonies that stayed loyal to the British crown in North America compared with the 13 more populous and developed colonies that rebelled. 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦🇧🇸
You forgot Popham (Maine) which preceded Jamestown and was more robust than other cited early colonies. Also, an argument to be made that fishing fleets “colonized” outer islands in Massachusetts/Maine/Canada to take advantage of massive cod supply. Look up Damariscove Island near Boothbay Harbor as an example.
Thanks, I assumed it was glossed over when you mentioned Jamestown, but then saw that you came back and summarized it afterwards. Oops! Guess this reminds me to watch an entire video before commenting, but I guess I thought you were working purely in sequential order. Great stuff!
I honestly thought there would have been more about Vermont since by all rights it should be the 14 colonies considering it rebelled along with all the others.
The Witch Trials in Salem were actually in the part of town now known as Danvers. After the fiasco the town split and the original "center" renamed itself Danvers to disassociate with that history. Many families also left Salem after the trials including my ancestors the Bartons, who left to settle Framingham. New Haven Colony settled eastern Long Island before LI was merged into New York. Also northern New Jersey and several towns now in Westchester County NY (after the boundary settlement) including Rye, Bedford, and Pound Ridge. New Haven only reluctantly merged with Connecticut, and we actually alternated capital cities every two years between NH and Hartford until 1873 when it was agreed to keep it in Hartford. Connecticut defended it's colonial charter when Andros came to seize it in Hartford. During the meeting the lights were snuffed and the charter taken away out a window and hidden in a large oak tree south of town, now known as the Charter Oak.
I wonder what would’ve happened if the USA kept all of the territories it conquered in war. So like Japan, the Philippines and part of Germany became US states.
When Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe, supposedly he stopped somewhere in what is now northern California and claimed it as New England. Or so I remember reading. No settlement there, though. Curious if you've come across this rumor.
@@tommy-er6hh Supposedly he hammered a metal spike in the ground, claiming it, but that has never been found. I get a chuckle that "New England" was first in California if this rumor of history is true. Thanks for the reply.
i think it would be interesting to see a similair video talking about how these colonies displaced/killed natives tribes in order to get the land, and how lines on a map became real control on the ground. its something thats always in the back of my mind whenever the history of settler colonization is discussed, where unfortunately it ends up being talked about solely from the European perspective. which while certainly easier in terms of narrative and scope, it frames the horrible practice as something a lot more neutrally than it should be remembered as. this video has a very specific scope that i totally understand why there wasn't a greater mention of the natives. it just got me thinking about how colonization is generally talked about
This is a fair point - a lot of narratives (even including this one) can make it seem like colonialism is just coming in and building a town, when it really involves wars and broken treaties, as well as alliances and trade relationships. It's a dynamic process, though the end result in our history at least is that the indigenous people get harmed pretty consistently. It's good that you're thinking about all this.
Here is the info on one State, Florida under the Spanish: Florida Ais/Ays - along the Atlantic shoreline of Florida south of Cape Canaveral circa 1000 (13,000?) BC. The Ais became divers and salvagers of wrecked ships, which increased their wealth. Shortly after 1700, settlers in the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies started raiding the Ais. After 1703 the Ais were absorbed into the Costas tribe. The tribe is extinct. Calusa/Calos/Escapaba - SW Florida, fierce Indians, Shell mounds, died in 1700s of disease and combat when Spanish enslaved and fought and their Indian allies fought. Had as vassals the Mayaimi, the Tequesta and the Jaega tribes and maybe the Ais tribe. Did not migrate much, came to Florida about 500s BC. Often in conflict with the Tocobaga confederation to the north. The last Calusa went with Spanish evacuation to Cuba in 1763. The tribe is extinct. Costas - A remnant tribe around St Augustine made up refugees of other tribes. Jaega - Around Boca Raton, possibly a Taino tribe from Caribbean, They settled there about 3,000 BC. Never a large tribe, most died off in the 1703 Queen Anne’s war from english allied raiders, the last fled to key where a few went with Spanish evacuation to Cuba in 1763. The tribe is extinct. Mayaimi - Lake Okeechobee to Miami area, from 1000?BC/300 BC to 1700 AD. They may have been migrants from the Maya in the Yucatan. Highly advanced Mississippian culture until 1150 AD when there was a collapse. They may be related to the Maya-koa/Mayaca(Maya?) tribes to the immediate north. Between 1700 and 1730, Cherokee slave raiders with guns from the Province of Carolina repeatedly attacked the Mayaimi. A remnant went with Spanish evacuation to Cuba in 1763, the rest merged with the Seminole Alliance. The tribe is extinct. Tequesta/Tekesta/Tegesta/Chequesta/Vizcaynos - Biscayne Bay, from 200 BC. In 1763, Spain finally agreed to give up its claim to Florida and evacuate all Spaniards to Cuba, the last of the Tequesta went with them. The tribe is extinct. Tocobaga - W Florida/Tampa bay by the 900 AD, a confederation had sub-tribes Ucita, Pohoy, and Mococo. In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez a Spaniard met them, within 100 years they were reduced due to disease and violence. By the 1760s the christianized surviving Tocobaga were among the very small number of Indians remaining in Florida. In 1763, Spain finally agreed to give up its claim to Florida and evacuate all Spaniards to Cuba, the last of the Tocobaga went with them. The tribe is extinct.
@@tommy-er6hh thanks for this write up, i learnt a lot about how diverse and dynamic just that one region was it is really chilling to hear how these societies that had existed for millennia, were all just wiped out and killed. it is horrible how anyone can let that be forgotten
there were only 13 organized and chartered colonies, the rest were lands that were in the process of being settled illegally in violation of an act of parliament or were being prevented from being colonies by in-fighting by preexisting colonies. there were no “lost” colonies: they didn’t exist separately or legally according to the crown.
One of my favorite trivia questions is there is one continental state that is in two parts, can you name it? It is Michigan. Then I say before Michigan was a state, there was another state that was like this. Which one and what state did it's separate section become? People forget Masschusetts and what is now Maine was one state.Maine came in with Missouri during the Missouri compromise.
Ponce De Leon was not repelled from the St.Augustine Colony. There's a fort there that's a testament to that. And it wasn't the Calusa. The Calusa were a warlike tribe in South West Florida in what is now, Collier, Charlotte and Lee counties. The natives where Ponce De Leon landed were a peaceable tribe called the Timucua. If you can't get the most basic of details right. You prolly shouldn't be presenting any kind of history to folks. 🤦
I think these days is agreed that the Powhatan told the colonists "get out, if you know what is good for you" whereupon the survivors moved to Hatteras Island where they intermarried with the local fishermen. There's accounts in the early 1700s of English colonists finding half-"Indians" there with grey eyes who proudly called themselves Englishmen, although not really answering to English authority.
False the stripes do not represent the colonies the stars do and thats why the 13 star flag is THE official flag and NOT Once has it been considered otherwise in the legal manner infact the 13 stripes predate the birth of the united states and the revolution
7:33 Could we get that bible quote?? Because I have a feeling you're referencing the book of mormom. In which case I would infer you are either too oblivious to know the difference, calling into question all of your "historical" content, or you purposefully conflate the 2 to subject the actual words of the Holy Bible to a lesser standard.
Sorry for the confusion: it's not that there's a bible quote about the Plymouth colonists - it's that the names "Pilgrims" and "Strangers" for the Plymouth colonists is a more modern name that comes from a bible quote that the colonists themselves used, specifically Hebrews 11:13-16
Only forgotten by the poorly educated. The title is a bit miss leading. Perhaps forgotten colonies in the Americas, but then you would have to included the vast history of native peoples and there colonial and empirical designs.
No those other colonies were never an important part of the original 13 colonies that eventually composed the United States of America. The colonies established by the French, Spanish, or other European nations were not British. In addition, those other colonies were never intended to become permanent homes of the settlers. The other colonies were basically get rich schemes. The only people that worked for was the Spanish. The only other power that attempted to import their culture was France and that worked on a limited basis. However, the French people had no desire to leave France in large numbers. The Spanish brought almost no Spanish women with them. Without the women, there could be no Spanish culture. Therefore, the Spanish who migrated to the Americas never thought of the Americas they controlled as Spain. To them, it was just a source of wealth.
"Enslaved people" [Jamestown]
*Indentured* people, you mean. Chattel slavery came later in the 17th century, at least to Virginia. This practice was imported from the Carolinas IIRC, and that from Barbados.
That's a fair distinction. Slavery as such was practiced in colonial Virginia by the time of the revolution for sure, but perhaps I left out too much about the timing of the transition from a system of indentured servitude to one of slavery as we usually think of it.
Would it help if I pin this comment?
@ go for it :)
that was my only real quibble
@@SignoreGalileiFour Ross' (6?) were taken as Indentured Servants by the Crown in the 1650s and Sent to Massachusetts. See there was a Small Rebellion in the UK, and the Crown put that Rebellion down Easily enough and did not Punish a Single Man after they all Surrendered, accept those Ross', because the Stewart King was Steaming and a Bit Hurt, that Ross', his cousins would Participate in such against him! See it was the Chief of the Great Clan Ross the 4th Earl of Ross Hugh Ross (1st to take on our surname, a name was Protected by Law across the Empire) who's daughter married the 1st Stewart King and was the Matriarch of the Royal Stewart Bloodline (although that caused a War with the Ross' & Laird of the Isles against the Stewarts for the next Generation). Than after the official Advent of Surnames some Generations later with Ross' having a Surname for Generations already, all Ross that could not Prove their Pedigree by Paperwork became MacKenzies, some say to Reduce Clan Ross (all the Gentry of the once Great Clan Ross) in size and power and further supplement the MacKenzies who partially replaced us within Ross-shire particularly in Wester Ross, but also because the King didn't like having so many Cousins that had fallen into commonality, as with Regular Random people taking on the Ross surname across the Isle so all Ross' had to have Proof of Pedigree in Paperwork. However so good upon our Generations were we that no amount of Titles or Spots for Squire could keep up with us so you can imagine by the 1650s many Ross' had fallen into Commonality again, so it's not like those Ross' taken as Indentured Servants knew the King(?) or were part of the Gentry(?) Otherwise they wouldn't of been all Pissed Off and Rebelling with Everyone Else.
It’s interesting how broad the definition of “colony” was, where some were individual towns and others were vast swathes of territory that are now states (or multiple states)
My general criterion was to include a colony if it was started by a separate group of people, especially if it had its own colonial charter. There were a bunch of settlements in Virginia that I was on the fence about including, but I chose to leave them out in the end (mostly so I could finish the video without it taking even longer).
yeah one was a fishing village for pete's sake
@@rosgill6 Do you mean the one that became the State of New Hampshire? Or a different one?
Literally, any group of settlers from another place constitutes a colony. You see it in "art colony" and "nudist colony".
Author Serge Trifkovic argues that later, the British Empire got the terms reversed-- the "Dominions" were really the colonies, i.e., settlers, and the "Colonies" the dominions, i.e., lording it over other peoples.
English Canada would have been colonies, but French Canada a true dominion.
You forgot the Transylvania colony in what was Kentucky and parts of Tennessee. It was rejected at the behest of the Virginia colony as part of their agreement to join the colonies during the revolutionary war.
Daniel Boone and others (including members of my family) were part of that original land grant.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention - I seem to have missed a few real and proposed colonies past the Appalachians. I'll put something up in the description, at least.
You forget the colony of New Ireland. It was a colony founded in current day Maine by American loyalist during the American Revolution.
When New Brunswick succeeded from Nova Scottish after the revolution, they were called New Ireland and they claimed that part of Maine as theirs. The colonies from Massachusetts to Virginia were used to more autonomy/independence due to the English civil war and many other things happening during the 1600s and 1700s so they were self made, more developed, and didn’t like England reorganizing and changing everything every time they got involved like every 30 years instead of constant authority or just self rule in England. This also shows during American history until 1950 when America was a British(mainly English) nation culturally, religiously, and all other regards.
@BXMKE No, I am not talking about New Brunswick which was founded in 1790, but New Ireland founded in 1779. The governor of the colony was Brigadier Francis McLean and it claimed the territory of northern modern Maine from the Nova Scotia (modern day New Brunswick) to Penobscot Bay. The Beitish held this territory until the end of the war in 1783, when it was seceded to these United States. Massachusetts tried to the capture the territory in the failed Penobscot Expedition.
Do you mean American traitors?
@@donkeyslayer9879 what did they betray your gay ideology? american is just an ideology it's not a people it's not a language
it's exactly the same as communism
[New Brunswick was founded in 1784]@@benjamintimmons8013
Loved this video! At first i thought it was going to be about the colonies america itself established, but this was much more enlightening
I'm vaguely planning a follow up video about the colonies the US established overseas, too!
Yeah, I thought it was going to be about the British North America colony (I.e: us here in Canada) and how it “got away”. 🙄 No, we don’t want to join the US and never have.
Probably the 1950’s would have been the best time to integrate Canada into the US, but since then Canada has stayed relatively progressive whilst the US keeps going further right. And now they slap tariffs on us. Not cool.
5:42 As a New Jerseyan, "Pork Taylor Ham Roll" is something I can get behind!
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can’t say People just liked it better that way
Shameless plug, but you might appreciate my video on the Turkish Straits
They changed it when the English seized it from the Dutch. So they named it after an old English town installed of a Dutch one.
@@ToyInsanity It's a joke referencing the "Istanbul/Constantinople" song I think?
I am related to Lord De La Warr; he's in the genealogy book of The Shelton family. My paternal grandmother was a Shelton. They first settled in Virginia in the early 1600s.
One think you missed is that Plymouth was actually fully independent as a colony up until the dominion of New England where it was annexed by Massachusetts, because Plymouth never had a charter much like Delaware because the pilgrims were actually supposed to land in the northern bounds of the Virginia colony at Governor’s Island in NYC (this is why had to sign the mayflower compact to ensure people followed the rules) they were absorbed and when they tried to regain independence again by petitioning the crown they said no and that’s why we didn’t get our 14th state in Plymouth.
My 6X Grandmother was born in Little Compton, Plymouth Colony in 1690. The following year she was living in Little Compton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, then after 1747 (if i am remembering the year correctly) she lived in Little Compton, Rhode Island, yet always lived within a few miles of where she was born.
@ yeah pretty much, but the border dispute between RI and MA wasn’t fully resolved until after independence. It was actually in 1838 when they finally fixed it and decided that the 1717-1718 boundaries would be the official boundary.
The merger occurred in 1692. The former boundary between Plymouth and Massachusetts can be seen today as a diagonal line on a map showing MA counties and their boundaries.
There is a great park on the south side of Philadelphia remembering the Swedish colony on that site. Well worth the visit.
Finnish colonists in New Sweden introduced the log cabin to America!
Ayyy happy to see an upload love your vids man !
Thanks, hope you enjoyed the video!
Funny sidenote of interest (?) When king george 3 later added the red "x" representing ireland to the flag, creating the union jack, the red x of ireland is actually the fitzgerald family crest, often called, ( somewhat mistakenly) the " saint patrick's cross". The Fitzgeralds ( geraldines) came over with william the conqueror in 1066 and remained close to the royals in trusted positions, close to them. When the family married into the Twdyrs in Wales, they became cousins, then were moved to ireland to oversee cork and kerry. So that x is my grandpas family crest on the union jack, put there by their distant cousin
That's pretty cool. Too bad you guys are still from the UK
It is my understanding that George Washington also wanted the colonies of Nova Scotia, Barbados, and Newfoundland to join with our original 13. The three didn't want to have anything to do with the deal (like most of the original 13 themselves) and rejected the call. But it would have been very interesting if they had joined way back when.
A very forgotten colony was Portuguese Newfoundland. Some reports claim thay Portugal was fishing there as early as 1450/70, but kept it a secret because of the whole Spanish ordeal and treaties.
There are also some Portuguese vestigies left behind from that era.
I believe those were seasonal settlements that processed fish for preservation and transport back to Europe.
You forgot the forgotten colony of Fort San Juan. It was established in 1567 near the Cherokee town of Joara (near modern Morganton, NC). It was the first attempt of a permanent inland Spanish settlement in North America.
everyone talks about the 13 colonies, but no one ever mentions the 19 colonies
Talk about forgotten, this youtuber is oblivious of Santa Fe, San Juan de los Caballeros and New Mexico in 1598.
very informative. quick and packed with info. great video!
I see you're sidestepping the mess that was West Florida's history by implying it fully joined the States with East Florida.
I've already discussed it in a previous video (America's Forgotten Countries) so I didn't want to go into it here again
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Yeah! Hopefully you won't have to wait so long for the next one.
Always a delight when you pop back up!
Thanks!
Russia also briefly had a colony in California, if I remember correctly, but gave it up to either Mexico or the US.
Fort Ross
Always good to see a new vid from you dude!
Hey, I recognize that name! Really glad you've been watching these and enjoying them.
Would have been nice to see the total tally at the end
Yes--if not at the end, could you put it in comments. I realize as is pointed out in comments that the line is somewhat arbitrary, but having a tally of what you included by your original categories would still be useful.
I wish you talked a bit more about the other European colonies found outside of the Atlantic seaboard. French Louisiana, Spanish Louisiana, the Spanish provinces of Texas, New Mexico and (Alta) California, Russian Alaska and the Russian settlements along the Pacific Northwest (reaching as far south as Fort Ross in modern-day California), etc.
I understand that America (as a nation) originated on the Atlantic seaboard, but the influence other European colonies and their descendants have on modern-day America is understated.
I'll remember all of this first time without ever having to check back. Thanks my guy.
"West Florida" reached to the Mississippi, where they still speak of the "Florida parishes". Like New Sweden, it was relatively small, but included parts of four modern states.
Excellent video!
Thanks!
Spain briefly had a colony on what is now the York River in Virginia, but it was abandoned before the English arrived in 1607.
Thank you for this video. This is a subject that I have always been extremely curious about, because I had heard of certain European powers aside from the known ones, such as the English, French, or Spanish setting up ports inside of what would become the East Coast, and wondered what the story was behind them. Thank you.
What of the colonies that today are Canadian provinces New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia? How do they figure into this history?
Nova Scotia was founded before Georgia, and about the same time as Carolina was divided into two separate colonies. In 1763 Nova Scotia was decreed to include contemporary territories of PEI [and, also: contemporary Cape Breton Island, and New Brunswick]. PEI was called St John's Island, and separated into a separate colony in 1769. Both Nova Scotia and St John's Isle were part of the American Revolutionary Wars, and remained loyal; New Brunswick was formed from the Western half of Nova Scotia in 1784.
I thought you were also going to talk about some of the colonies that would become Canadian too:(
I'm thinking about doing that in a future video - stat tuned!
I could be wrong here but wasn't Delaware Swedish before the Dutch took it?.
Ja!
NJ split again in 1856 over the invention of Taylor ham/pork roll. Good one!! 😆
What about Nova Scotia, New found land, and upper and lower Canada? You missed a huge part of America's forgotten Colonies... the orginal 17 colonies. Not just the 13
They were not "American" colonies, they were separate British ones who remained loyal.
@@alexandreveigapereira8727 The point - remained loyal Colonies - but still colonies
Friendly reminder that even the borders shown on the video were very finicky, and they were mostly defined to their east, and it was free game from any land west.
Very true, thanks for the reminder!
Let’s get this straight
In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Yes there was the Lost Colony at Roanoke, Va. But it is still lost.
Queen Elizabeth I wouldn’t allow a resupply ship to try to the colony because of the Spanish.
Also the Virginia colony didn’t bring slaves with them from England. That didn’t happen until years later when the Portuguese who were trading with African slavers had a ship that survived a storm and would up in Jamestown, Va.
That scream at the end scared my cats (and me)
Oof sorry about that - it's a bit that I've done a few times on this channel
1:21 lol nice! I like that shoutout.
the new jersey joke was great
Thanks haha
Surprisingly they weren't forgotten they just weren't part of the original 13. So I don't think I watch the rest of this since the guy started with the wrong premise.
"The Moon belongs to America!"
We got there first🇺🇸
Great job!
11:07 Southern State mentioned 🔥🔥🔥 WHAT THE FUCK IS A PROPER MERGE 🔥🔥🔥
7:54 hit me like a sleeper agent trigger phrase
Yeah, oh boy
Okay I was just shocked for a second. I had to check my ancestry tree like 10 times. 7:57 is the trial of my 9th great grandmother. That is her paining. I’m absolutely blown away
underrated TH-camr alert 🚨 needs more subs
5:38 That’s a good one. And it’s pork roll, not Taylor ham
South Jersey!
very cool!
Babe wake up a new Galilei just dropped
11:06 Whats with the Southern State Parkway,
Thank you for a great video. The problem I tend to find is that people fall in love with the myths of history, rather than the history itself. Most times, it’s propaganda which has later become part of the self esteem of the nation or person in question. This can often lead to a lack of funding for ongoing efforts due to short term thinking. “Why look further? We know everything already.”
History is an ongoing discipline with new tools and new avenues to present this information and gain new perspectives. This video is a great video on rarely discussed colonial history.
Look forward to viewing your other content.
5:45 It’s Pork Roll and I’ll die on that hill.
If you don’t agree, let me ask you this: Why is it called the “Pork Roll Festival” and not the “Taylor Ham Festival” despite taking place in Trenton where Taylor Provisions is headquartered?
Some of my ancestors lived in New Haven Colony back in the 1630s!
people often forget about the colony of bajookieland after it sank into the ocean
Massholes have existed for centuries, and are the reason Connecticut and Rhode Island exist lol
My Dutch ancestors helped drive the English out of "New York" for good..
yeah you guys tossed the tea into the harbour and your country turned brown
enjoy your spanish lessons
@@test-201holy racism Batman
I agree with expanded out the definition of colonies, but there seem to be some omissions and nuances that are missing. The Northern Marianas are included but not Hawaii? The current situation of Puerto Rico seems like a glaring omission. Also the outlines of colonies are a super mixed bag: some outlines are modern state borders (like the tip of northern Maine which was contested for a long time) or like western New York (which was still controlled by the Iroquois Confederacy).
You have some good points - here's why I made the choices I did. The outlines were mostly dictated by what I could get on a map - boundaries were pretty fuzzy at that point in history. Hawaii was independent up through American annexation, and Puerto Rico is still a colony (at least approximately) so I figured it wouldn't be a forgotten colony.
@@SignoreGalilei That makes sense.(though Hawaii was a "territory" which I think counted as a non-self-governing territory). Though I think there is still something missing in the definitional negotiation between colonies, settler colonialism, and indigenous agency, especially when it it just limited to European perspectives. Which, in all fairness, is a lot to ask for.
is the pronunciation of "new haven" text a joke or serious? i don't get it.
It's how people from the area pronounce it - I didn't remember that when I was recording the script, so I added it as a pre-emptive correction.
Maybe you could do another video about the other British colonies in North America who existed in 1776, but for various reasons choose not to join the American Revolution. East and West Florida, the Bahamas, Vermont (stayed neutral and joined the US later), Nova Scotia (which then included modern New Brunswick and PEI), Newfoundland, and Quebec (British owned but French-speaking and included most of modern Ontario and down into the Ohio valley). That makes 9 British colonies that stayed loyal to the British crown in North America compared with the 13 more populous and developed colonies that rebelled. 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦🇧🇸
You forgot Tristan de Luna's 1559 colony at Pensacola and Charles Fort on Parris Island,S C that was established by the French in 1562.
Lord Delaware got a State named after him. Cool
You forgot Popham (Maine) which preceded Jamestown and was more robust than other cited early colonies. Also, an argument to be made that fishing fleets “colonized” outer islands in Massachusetts/Maine/Canada to take advantage of massive cod supply. Look up Damariscove Island near Boothbay Harbor as an example.
Popham is at 7:01 - and yes, the cod fishing was a huge part of the history of New England and the Maritimes in this era.
Thanks, I assumed it was glossed over when you mentioned Jamestown, but then saw that you came back and summarized it afterwards. Oops! Guess this reminds me to watch an entire video before commenting, but I guess I thought you were working purely in sequential order. Great stuff!
No worries - fair assumption, just not how I ended up doing it. And thanks!
I honestly thought there would have been more about Vermont since by all rights it should be the 14 colonies considering it rebelled along with all the others.
I would have put more about Vermont, but I already talked about the Vermont Republic in a previous video "America's Forgotten Countries"
The Witch Trials in Salem were actually in the part of town now known as Danvers. After the fiasco the town split and the original "center" renamed itself Danvers to disassociate with that history. Many families also left Salem after the trials including my ancestors the Bartons, who left to settle Framingham.
New Haven Colony settled eastern Long Island before LI was merged into New York. Also northern New Jersey and several towns now in Westchester County NY (after the boundary settlement) including Rye, Bedford, and Pound Ridge. New Haven only reluctantly merged with Connecticut, and we actually alternated capital cities every two years between NH and Hartford until 1873 when it was agreed to keep it in Hartford.
Connecticut defended it's colonial charter when Andros came to seize it in Hartford. During the meeting the lights were snuffed and the charter taken away out a window and hidden in a large oak tree south of town, now known as the Charter Oak.
The new in Britain in 1776: The colonists are revolting.
The British government in response: We are aware of this.
Southern State Parkway shoutout 🎉
The Taylor War in NJ: still not at an end.
I wonder what would’ve happened if the USA kept all of the territories it conquered in war. So like Japan, the Philippines and part of Germany became US states.
When Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe, supposedly he stopped somewhere in what is now northern California and claimed it as New England. Or so I remember reading. No settlement there, though. Curious if you've come across this rumor.
Yeah, it was somewhere around Monterey/San Francisco. I think he the claim in his log - we do not know if that is true.
@@tommy-er6hh Supposedly he hammered a metal spike in the ground, claiming it, but that has never been found. I get a chuckle that "New England" was first in California if this rumor of history is true. Thanks for the reply.
Wow
Yeah
You left out Anne Hutchinson's attempted colony on Long Island in the 1640's
Good video but too quiet on the microphone
i think it would be interesting to see a similair video talking about how these colonies displaced/killed natives tribes in order to get the land, and how lines on a map became real control on the ground.
its something thats always in the back of my mind whenever the history of settler colonization is discussed, where unfortunately it ends up being talked about solely from the European perspective. which while certainly easier in terms of narrative and scope, it frames the horrible practice as something a lot more neutrally than it should be remembered as.
this video has a very specific scope that i totally understand why there wasn't a greater mention of the natives. it just got me thinking about how colonization is generally talked about
I hope you're not white.
This is a fair point - a lot of narratives (even including this one) can make it seem like colonialism is just coming in and building a town, when it really involves wars and broken treaties, as well as alliances and trade relationships. It's a dynamic process, though the end result in our history at least is that the indigenous people get harmed pretty consistently. It's good that you're thinking about all this.
Here is the info on one State, Florida under the Spanish:
Florida
Ais/Ays - along the Atlantic shoreline of Florida south of Cape Canaveral circa 1000 (13,000?) BC. The Ais became divers and salvagers of wrecked ships, which increased their wealth. Shortly after 1700, settlers in the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies started raiding the Ais. After 1703 the Ais were absorbed into the Costas tribe. The tribe is extinct.
Calusa/Calos/Escapaba - SW Florida, fierce Indians, Shell mounds, died in 1700s of disease and combat when Spanish enslaved and fought and their Indian allies fought. Had as vassals the Mayaimi, the Tequesta and the Jaega tribes and maybe the Ais tribe. Did not migrate much, came to Florida about 500s BC. Often in conflict with the Tocobaga confederation to the north. The last Calusa went with Spanish evacuation to Cuba in 1763. The tribe is extinct.
Costas - A remnant tribe around St Augustine made up refugees of other tribes.
Jaega - Around Boca Raton, possibly a Taino tribe from Caribbean, They settled there about 3,000 BC. Never a large tribe, most died off in the 1703 Queen Anne’s war from english allied raiders, the last fled to key where a few went with Spanish evacuation to Cuba in 1763. The tribe is extinct.
Mayaimi - Lake Okeechobee to Miami area, from 1000?BC/300 BC to 1700 AD. They may have been migrants from the Maya in the Yucatan. Highly advanced Mississippian culture until 1150 AD when there was a collapse. They may be related to the Maya-koa/Mayaca(Maya?) tribes to the immediate north. Between 1700 and 1730, Cherokee slave raiders with guns from the Province of Carolina repeatedly attacked the Mayaimi. A remnant went with Spanish evacuation to Cuba in 1763, the rest merged with the Seminole Alliance. The tribe is extinct.
Tequesta/Tekesta/Tegesta/Chequesta/Vizcaynos - Biscayne Bay, from 200 BC. In 1763, Spain finally agreed to give up its claim to Florida and evacuate all Spaniards to Cuba, the last of the Tequesta went with them. The tribe is extinct.
Tocobaga - W Florida/Tampa bay by the 900 AD, a confederation had sub-tribes Ucita, Pohoy, and Mococo. In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez a Spaniard met them, within 100 years they were reduced due to disease and violence. By the 1760s the christianized surviving Tocobaga were among the very small number of Indians remaining in Florida. In 1763, Spain finally agreed to give up its claim to Florida and evacuate all Spaniards to Cuba, the last of the Tocobaga went with them. The tribe is extinct.
@@tommy-er6hh thanks for this write up, i learnt a lot about how diverse and dynamic just that one region was
it is really chilling to hear how these societies that had existed for millennia, were all just wiped out and killed. it is horrible how anyone can let that be forgotten
proud east jersey resident
there were only 13 organized and chartered colonies, the rest were lands that were in the process of being settled illegally in violation of an act of parliament or were being prevented from being colonies by in-fighting by preexisting colonies. there were no “lost” colonies: they didn’t exist separately or legally according to the crown.
Have a happy new year Signore Galilei
Thanks!
One of my favorite trivia questions is there is one continental state that is in two parts, can you name it? It is Michigan. Then I say before Michigan was a state, there was another state that was like this. Which one and what state did it's separate section become? People forget Masschusetts and what is now Maine was one state.Maine came in with Missouri during the Missouri compromise.
Cool! Does the bit of Virginia on the Delmarva Peninsula count too though, or is it too small?
Natches was a colony
5:43
It's PORK ROLL!!!!!!!!
lol when you the Wozniak of States.
Ponce De Leon was not repelled from the St.Augustine Colony. There's a fort there that's a testament to that. And it wasn't the Calusa. The Calusa were a warlike tribe in South West Florida in what is now, Collier, Charlotte and Lee counties. The natives where Ponce De Leon landed were a peaceable tribe called the Timucua. If you can't get the most basic of details right. You prolly shouldn't be presenting any kind of history to folks. 🤦
That story isn't about St. Augustine, it's a different colony on Ponce de Leon's later expedition. Check the sources in the description for more.
Lol, roanoke "famously disappeared". Look up Death Wind and the description of the native god "Oki"
I think these days is agreed that the Powhatan told the colonists "get out, if you know what is good for you" whereupon the survivors moved to Hatteras Island where they intermarried with the local fishermen.
There's accounts in the early 1700s of English colonists finding half-"Indians" there with grey eyes who proudly called themselves Englishmen, although not really answering to English authority.
False the stripes do not represent the colonies the stars do and thats why the 13 star flag is THE official flag and NOT Once has it been considered otherwise in the legal manner infact the 13 stripes predate the birth of the united states and the revolution
"lord delaware"
Your "feedback" icon looks an awful lot like Connecticut!
You couldn't have edited this video any worse, bro.
Some people lack visual intelligence, lol.
Try to keep your audience awake DURING your video instead of at the end with obnoxious squawks and annoying music.
7:33 Could we get that bible quote?? Because I have a feeling you're referencing the book of mormom. In which case I would infer you are either too oblivious to know the difference, calling into question all of your "historical" content, or you purposefully conflate the 2 to subject the actual words of the Holy Bible to a lesser standard.
Sorry for the confusion: it's not that there's a bible quote about the Plymouth colonists - it's that the names "Pilgrims" and "Strangers" for the Plymouth colonists is a more modern name that comes from a bible quote that the colonists themselves used, specifically Hebrews 11:13-16
Only forgotten by the poorly educated. The title is a bit miss leading. Perhaps forgotten colonies in the Americas, but then you would have to included the vast history of native peoples and there colonial and empirical designs.
The way you describe the Brits getting New Amsterdam makes me question this whole video.
This is stupid.
No those other colonies were never an important part of the original 13 colonies that eventually composed the United States of America. The colonies established by the French, Spanish, or other European nations were not British. In addition, those other colonies were never intended to become permanent homes of the settlers. The other colonies were basically get rich schemes. The only people that worked for was the Spanish. The only other power that attempted to import their culture was France and that worked on a limited basis. However, the French people had no desire to leave France in large numbers. The Spanish brought almost no Spanish women with them. Without the women, there could be no Spanish culture. Therefore, the Spanish who migrated to the Americas never thought of the Americas they controlled as Spain. To them, it was just a source of wealth.