1700-1750 1701 William Penn issues Charter of Privileges for Pennsylvania. 1701 Charter of Delaware granted October 28. 1702 East Jersey and West Jersey unite to form royal province of New Jersey. 1702 Queen Anne begins reign; dies 1714. Annapolis is named for her. 1705 First Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money. 1707 Scotland and England join to become Great Britain. 1711 War with Tuscarora Indians in Carolinas. Tuscarora head north. 1712 North Carolina gets own governor, separates from South Carolina. 1715 North Carolina Biennial Act passed in meeting at New River. 1716 First theater in the colonies opens at Williamsburg, Virginia. 1717 Mother Goose appears in print, in Boston. 1718 New Orleans founded by Le Page du Pratz, for Bienville. 1720 First settlements in Vermont. 1723 Benjamin Franklin leaves Boston for Philadelphia. 1728 First American steel made in Hartford, CT. 1729 Jonathan Swift proposes measures to make poor children useful in Ireland. 1732 Charter of Georgia granted June 9. 1732 Benjamin Franklin begins to publish Poor Richard's Almanac. 1732 First stagecoach route connects Burlington to Perth Amboy, NJ 1733 Sugar Act, aka Molasses Act, a revenue enhancement scheme for Britain. 1733 Georgia becomes 13th colony; founded by James Oglethorpe. 1737 North Carolina Biennial Act: The king responds after 22 years. 1738 British traders begin working shores of Lake Erie, compete with French. 1740 English Parliament allows naturalization of colonists after 7 years. 1740 Invention of the Franklin stove, his most famous invention. 1740 Philadelphia is largest city in America. Population 13,000. 1741 Vitus Bering claims Alaska for his (now) homeland Russia. 1748 Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep appears in New England Primer. 1749 England recognizes slavery and plantation system in the south. 1749 George Washington becomes surveyor at age 17.