Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Rock(ProperNoun) for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke 2  ). Rock(ProperNoun) transferred from the surname. 3  Rock(ProperNoun) Nickname of Gibraltar. 4  Rock(ProperNoun) Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA.
In 1700, there were about 250,000 European and African settlers in North Americaâs thirteen English colonies. By 1775, on the eve of revolution, there were nearly 2.5 million.These colonists did not have much in common, but they were able to band together and fight for their independence.1  Tags.he Middle Colonies. In 1664, King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York.
In the early years of the British colonization of North America, military action in the thirteen colonies that would become the United States were the result of conflicts with Native Americans, such as in the Pequot War of 1637, King Philip's War in 1675, the Yamasee War in 1715 and Father Rale's War in 1722.