<Li> Province of North Carolina, first permanent English settlements in the late 1600s (nearly a century after the failed Roanoke Colony; see Albemarle Settlements), became a separate colony in 1710--12 . </Li> <Li> Province of South Carolina, first permanent English settlement in 1670, became a separate colony in 1710--12 . </Li> <Li> Province of Georgia, later Georgia; first settled in about 1670, formal colony in 1732 </Li> <Li> Nova Scotia, site of abortive Scottish colony in 1629; British colony 1713, but this did not permanently include Cape Breton Island until 1758 . </Li>

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