Alternate 17th century east coast colonization

raharris1973

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WI the Jamestown colonists went to Manhattan and took root there,

..and as butterflies, the Pilgrim Separatists and then Puritans settled in Delaware Bay

The Dutch settled the Cheseapeake

& the Swedes settled Boston/Cape Cod

How might things develop, with the English colonies starting and concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic, with the Swedes to the north and the Dutch to the south of them.

Do the Swedes or Dutch have any shot at keeping their colonies longer. That would be interesting.

But even if they get taken over by the English by the end of the 1600s, and all of the east coast from Maine to Georgia has an Anglo destiny by the mid-1700s, it is interesting to have the founder cultures spread around:

Cavaliers on the Hudson, Puritans around the Delaware, a Swedish residue at least in Massaschussetts, a Dutch layer in Virginia and the latter Quakers and Anglo-Barbadians and Germans and Scots-Irish who knows where.

Any speculation on the impact of the initial concept.
 
well the British found Newfoundland in 1497... with some effort they could have been colonizing what in OTL are the Canadian Maritimes around the same time the Spanish are beating up Central and South American Indians.

Seems like an ideal place to send Religious Dissenters and Henry VIII definitely could have used the cash from the Cod in the Grand Banks
 

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hmm, who were the main dissenters in England that early back when Henry was still earning his defender of the faith ring? little batches of Lutherans?
 
hmm, who were the main dissenters in England that early back when Henry was still earning his defender of the faith ring? little batches of Lutherans?

a lot of highly annoyed Catholics after he broke from Rome, prior to that only a few people who were actually convicted of heresy

So initial settlement by a company designed to exploit the Cod resources, followed by later colonies for dissenters which could be on what are now the Canadian Maritimes. Other companies to exploit the fur trade would seem reasonable too
 
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