Virginia: The first of the 13 American colonies, it grew wealthy from tobacco farming, thanks in part to labor from indentured servants and later enslaved people. Maryland: Founded by Lord ...

2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so ... In 2006, 12 men were killed in a methane gas explosion in ...

The keepers of statistics in the colonies were not much interested in the native population but they kept careful notes about the lives of white colonists. About half were Catholic and half ...