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Show Colonies Classified In lCOO" the American colonic? were divided under the following classifications: classifica-tions: Royal, proprietary ar.d republican. repub-lican. The classification is based upon the three different methods by which their governors obtained office. At this date the following colonies were royal :. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, New York. Virginia and Maryland (temporarily). The proprietary colonies colo-nies were Pennsylvania. Delaware, New Jersey and the Carolinas. Of the latter lat-ter group only the first two remained proprietary. The rest became royal, while Maryland was restored to the Baltimore family. Uhode Tsland and Connecticut alone retained their elective elec-tive governors and so may be classed as republican. |