The modern history of the United States of America is generally traced back to the founding of Jamestown in the colony of Virginia in 1607. Virginia remained the center of British colonialism in the present-day United States, until the founding of the Plymouth colony in the Northeast in 1620. Virginia remained the largest colony for several decades thereafter, although expansion in the Northeast saw the founding of more individual colonies. The population of the Thirteen colonies first exceeded 100,000 people in the 1660s, and crossed the one million threshold in the 1740s.
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Internet Archive. (January 1, 1999). Total population in the Thirteen Colonies (the United States) in each decade from 1620 to 1760 [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 22, 2026, from /statistics/1415691/thirteen-colonies-population/
Internet Archive. "Total population in the Thirteen Colonies (the United States) in each decade from 1620 to 1760." Chart. January 1, 1999. ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Accessed July 22, 2026. /statistics/1415691/thirteen-colonies-population/
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Internet Archive. "Total Population in The Thirteen Colonies (The United States) in Each Decade from 1620 to 1760." ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ, ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Inc., 1 Jan 1999, /statistics/1415691/thirteen-colonies-population/
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Total population in the Thirteen Colonies (the United States) in each decade from 1620 to 1760 [Graph], Internet Archive, January 1, 1999. [Online]. Available: /statistics/1415691/thirteen-colonies-population/
