Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Rock(ProperNoun) for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke 2  ). Rock(ProperNoun) transferred from the surname. 3  Rock(ProperNoun) Nickname of Gibraltar. 4  Rock(ProperNoun) Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA.
In 1700, there were about 250,000 European and African settlers in North Americaâs thirteen English colonies. By 1775, on the eve of revolution, there were nearly 2.5 million.These colonists did not have much in common, but they were able to band together and fight for their independence.1  Tags.he Middle Colonies. In 1664, King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York.
Patterns of Colonization in the Other Early Colonies [edit]. The territory of Carolina, named after the British King Charles I, was granted as a proprietary colony to eight different nobles. The proprietors divided Carolina into two separate colonies -- North Carolina and South Carolina.Four colonies were formed by division from already extant larger territories.When New Holland was taken to become New York, King James granted a portion of the territory, present-day New Jersey, to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Cartaret, while retaining present-day New York for himself as a proprietary colony.ortrait of the British Colonies [edit]. The Colonies are often considered as three groups: New England (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut), the Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia), and the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware).