Another English colony was founded in 1620 by a group of people fleeing religious persecution. They disagreed with the teachings of the church of England and wished to separate themselves from it not to reform it. However they did not called themselves "Pilgrims". The colonist set out in a ship called the Mayflower and they arrived on 11 December 1620. Half of the colonists did not survive the first year in North America. The natives who taught them how to grow corps saved the survivors. Another colony was founded at Salem in 1628.
The Massachusetts Bay Company was formed in 1629. From 1630 large number of settlers were transported to New England and its population swelled. Furthermore, English colonists spread over the coast of North America. In 1634 people from Massachusetts founded the town of Wethersfield in Connecticut.
In 1636, a group of people left the Massachusetts Bay colony and settled on Rhode Island. The first settlement was at providence.
Meanwhile a fishing settlement was founded in New Hampshire in 1623. In 1629, the area between the Merrimack River and the Piscataqua River was granted to a man named Mason. It was named New Hampshire. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was founded in 1630. Officially New Hampshire was part of Massachusetts until 1679.
Unlike the southern states, which were overwhelmingly agriculture New England developed a partly mercantile economy. Fishing was an important industry. Export of timber and barrels were also important. There was also a ship building industry in New England.
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