<Ul> <Li> Roanoke Colony , founded 1586 , abandoned the next year . Second attempt in 1587 disappeared ( also called the Lost Colony ) . </Li> <Li> Cuttyhunk Island , established as a small fort and trading post by Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 , abandoned after one month . </Li> <Li> Virginia Company , chartered 1606 and became the Virginia Colony in 1624 <Ul> <Li> London Company <Ul> <Li> Jamestown , Virginia , founded 1607 ( briefly abandoned in 1610 ) </Li> <Li> Bermuda , islands located in the North Atlantic , first settled in 1609 by the London Virginia Company ; administration passed in 1615 to the Somers Isles Company , formed by the same shareholders . Known officially as the Somers Isles , they remain today a British overseas territory . </Li> <Li> Citie of Henricopolis , founded in 1611 as an alternative to the swampy Jamestown site and destroyed in the Indian massacre of 1622 . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Plymouth Company <Ul> <Li> Popham Colony , founded 1607 , abandoned 1608 </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Society of Merchant Venturers ( Newfoundland ) <Ul> <Li> Cuper 's Cove , founded 1610 , abandoned in the 1620s </Li> <Li> Bristol 's Hope , founded 1618 , abandoned in the 1630s </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> London and Bristol Company ( Newfoundland ) The massacre of Jamestown settlers in 1622 . Soon the colonists in the South feared all natives as enemies . <Ul> <Li> New Cambriol , founded 1617 , abandoned before 1637 </Li> <Li> Renews , founded 1615 , abandoned in 1619 </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> St. John 's , Newfoundland , chartered by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 ; seasonal settlements ca . 1520 ; informal year - round settlers before 1620 . </Li> <Li> Plymouth Council for New England <Ul> <Li> Plymouth Colony , founded 1620 , merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Ferryland , Newfoundland , granted to George Calvert , 1st Baron Baltimore in 1620 , first settlers in August 1621 </Li> <Li> Province of Maine , granted 1622 , sold to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1677 </Li> <Li> South Falkland , Newfoundland , founded 1623 by Henry Cary , 1st Viscount Falkland </Li> <Li> Province of New Hampshire , later New Hampshire settled in 1623 , see also New Hampshire Grants </Li> <Li> Dorchester Company Colony , ( Dorchester Company planted an unsuccessful fishing colony on Cape Ann at modern Gloucester , Massachusetts in 1624 ) </Li> <Li> Salem Colony , later Salem , Massachusetts , settled in 1628 , merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony the next year </Li> <Li> Massachusetts Bay Colony , later part of Massachusetts , founded 1629 </Li> <Li> New Scotland , in present Nova Scotia , 1629 -- 1632 </Li> <Li> Connecticut Colony , later part of Connecticut founded 1633 </Li> <Li> Province of Maryland , later Maryland , founded in 1634 The Treaty of William Penn with the Indians . Penn 's Treaty was never violated . </Li> <Li> New Albion , chartered in 1634 , failed by 1649 -- 50 , not to be confused with Nova Albion on the Pacific coast ( see next section ) </Li> <Li> Saybrook Colony , founded 1635 , merged with Connecticut in 1644 </Li> <Li> Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , first settled in 1636 </Li> <Li> New Haven Colony , founded 1638 , merged with Connecticut in 1665 </Li> <Li> Gardiners Island , founded 1639 , now part of East Hampton , New York </Li> <Li> Province of New York , captured 1664 </Li> <Li> Province of New Jersey , captured in 1664 <Ul> <Li> divided into West Jersey and East Jersey after 1674 , each held by its own company of Proprietors . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Province of Pennsylvania , later Pennsylvania , founded 1681 as an English colony , although first settled by Dutch and Swedes </Li> <Li> Delaware Colony , later Delaware , separated from Pennsylvania in 1704 </Li> <Li> Province of Carolina <Ul> <Li> Province of North Carolina , first permanent English settlements in the late 1600s ( nearly a century after the failed Roanoke Colony ; see Albemarle Settlements ) , became a separate colony in 1710 -- 12 . </Li> <Li> Province of South Carolina , first permanent English settlement in 1670 , became a separate colony in 1710 -- 12 . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Province of Georgia , later Georgia ; first settled in about 1670 , formal colony in 1732 </Li> <Li> Nova Scotia , site of abortive Scottish colony in 1629 ; British colony 1713 , but this did not permanently include Cape Breton Island until 1758 . </Li> <Li> Province of Quebec , which had been called Canada
where did the english establish the first successful settlement in the western hemisphere
Bermuda