Wave AFTER the Restoration(1660) and the Glorious Revolution (1688)

Types of Colonies

Charter (A.K.A a company with permission to exist from the crown) – No new ones

Proprietary – New ones

Royal – The future trend

Religions

Anglican (Church of England)

Lutherans

Presbyterian (mainly Scots-Irish)

Puritan (or variation thereof)

Quakers (Society of Friends—English or Welsh)

Roman Catholic

Separatist – Being absorbed

Variety of small Protestant groups, including Mennonites (German)

 

People

1st Charles II

2nd James II (was Duke of York, brother of Charles II, and future—briefly—king)

3rd William and Mary

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People in the colonies (or writing their rules) in alphabetical order:
Bacon, Nathaniel

Berkeley, Sir William (He is still there.)

Locke, John (and the Carolinas and his writing after the Glorious Revolution

Metacom or Metacomet (King Philip’s War)

Penn, William

Oglethorpe. James

Stuyvesant, Peter

Goal of colony

Company

Establish feudalism

Get rich quick by proprietors and individuals

Offer of ”headrights”

Religious tolerance for all

Religious tolerance for some[1]

Theocracy - Declining

Places

The former colonies still exist, including Massachusetts (and the town of Salem) and the English colony of Barbados in the Caribbean which now has too many planters for the space so they expand to the mainland.

 

New colonies  are:

Carolinas (eventually North and South)

Delaware

Georgia

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

Status

Slaves

Indentured servants–English (Africans can no longer be brought in as indentured servants.)

Free but landless

Free with land (church member)

Skill craftsmen

Gentlemen

Shareholders

Titled individuals (Sir, Lord, etc.)

Income

Farming, small landholding

Planters, large landholding

Crops – wheat/other food crops and cash crops (AKA staple crop) such as tobacco, indigo, and rice

Fishing

Shipbuilding

Ships stores (used to make ships)

Skilled crafts[2]

Trade with others

Government – may shift, may be more than 1 thing

Governed as a royal colony with a royally chosen governor

Governed by a proprietor

Governed by the company

Legislative body writes laws

Mob

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voting

Male church members (without shares of stock or other property)

Male owners of property

 



[1] Jews, heathens

[2] gunsmith, silversmith, blacksmith, etc.