What where the reasons for each of the original colonies?

Question

Virginia's main purpose was for profit and trade. What about the others political freedom, home for debators, religious freedom, things like that.

What where the reasons for each of the original 13 colonies? Forgot to put in the 13.

Answer 1

I have included all North American British Colonies as of 1776.

New York- Established as a Dutch colony at the mouth of the Hudson River and was primarily oriented to high value trade goods with the aboriginal people. Some settlement did spread up the Hudson River for agricultural purposes. This colony became much more oriented towards settlement once the English assumed control.

Cape Cod/Massachuschettes Bay-
( I hope I spelled that right)

Prior to the English Civil War and the Protectorate, members of the Puritan movement in England had grown frustrated with the state of society and decided to try an establish a separate and new one on the other side of the Atlantic. Once Cromwell died and the Restoration occurred, these colonies became a place for many of the people who were now just simple abandonning Britain for political reasons. Economic in migration also began to happen not long after as well.

Rhode Island/ Connecticut: the communities were founded by religious and political dissenters from Massachuchettes. They were soon over taken by economic migrants

Pennsylvania: The Quakers decided to build their own separate society as well

Maryland: A Catholic haven sponsored by Lord Baltimore

New Jersey/New Hampshire: I have always understood these were English founded settlement/ economic colonies generally founded in competition with their imediate neighbours (Jersey vs the Dutch; Hampshire vs their southern religious neighbours)

Delaware: Swedish founded community intended for high value resource exploitation and minor settlement. Assumed by the English very early on.

Virginia: profit

The Carolinas: (founded as one) profit

Georgia: there was a plan for a communal agricultural paradise here but it was quickly subsumed by the mass outmigration of the English population.

Nova Scotia: an amalgam of Samuel Champlain's Acadia colony, the Royal Navy Post at Halifax, and the French military settlement of Louisbourg, all of which were brought under English control

Quebec: Originally a French colony intended for the exploitation of high value resources and missionary work to the natives. Once assumed by the British, morphed into a merchantist colony to the aboriginal people and military bulkhead in the New World

Newfoundland: a military (naval) colony with a small permanent population involved in the fishery and infrastructure for a large amount of seasonal fishermen.

Answer 2

The Northern colonies, MA, RI and CT, as well as perhaps NH, all were founded for various religious reasons; all of the others were founded to settle colonists and to establish various agricultural enterprises. The only other one that might be suggested as religious, might be PA (Quakers) and/or MD (Catholic). GA, was founded as a Utopian colony, but essentially for agriculture.