13 colonies

Thirteen colonies, separately chartered and governed, in signing the Declaration of Independence formally broke with England to form the United States in the late 18th century.

• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

This content should live on whatever the proper (historians') name for the colonies is--[American colonies]?, perhaps. Moreover, it would be helpful for the above to link to web pages about the colonies that existed before the states!