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.
As part of the British Empire, the colonies engaged in numerous wars against France (and France's Indian allies), but France was expelled from North America in 1763 and was no longer a threat.hirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies, as of 1775, were British colonies on the east coast of North America which had been founded between 1607 (Virginia) and 1732 (Georgia), stretching from New England to the northern border of the Floridas (British East and West Florida).