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Founder of the colony of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Founder of the colony of Maryland
Lord Baltimore
King of England and for whom New York is named
Duke of York
Free African American who wrote a book about his experiences as an enslaved person
Olaudah Equiano
Colonist who contributed to the idea of freedom of religion in Colonial America
Anne Hutchinson
English preacher who traveled throughout the colonies during the First Great Awakening
George Whitefield
Colonist who managed the plantation that was the first to successfully grow indigo
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Helped establish the English colony of Jamestown
John Smith
Founder of the colony Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Puritan minister who helped bring about the First Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Puritan clergyman who founded Hartford, Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Governor of Plymouth Colony, the first permanent colony in New England
William Bradford
Helped found Georgia, the last of the thirteen colonies in North America
James Oglethorpe