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Although the Chesapeake Colonies and New England Colonies were settled at around the same time, the specific situations affecting each establishment altered the way that they developed. Jamestown was the first settlement on May 24, 1607. The Virginia Company of London, a joint-stock firm, commissioned it. The Jamestown colonists had increased pressure to strike it rich, because of the threat of abandonment in the wilderness. The first settlement in the New England region was Plymouth, which was founded 13 years later in 1620. It too struck an agreement with the Virginia Company, but steered far off course, and ended up far away from the Virginia Company's jurisdiction. It contained Seperatists, who as their name denotes, wanted separation from the Church of England. These Seperatists had left England at the same time the Virginia colonists did, but toiled in Holland for twelve years before settling in the New World.
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