Colonies started by a proprietor included:

Maryland
Georgia
Virginia
Pennsylvania

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The colonies started by a proprietor include:

  1. Maryland - Founded by Lord Baltimore as a refuge for Catholics.
  2. Pennsylvania - Founded by William Penn as a haven for Quakers and religious freedom.
  3. Delaware - Initially part of Pennsylvania and granted to William Penn.

While Georgia and Virginia were indeed important colonies, they were primarily founded for different reasons. Virginia was a joint-stock colony, and Georgia was founded as a buffer against Spanish Florida and a place for debtors, but not specifically as a proprietary colony in the same sense as Maryland and Pennsylvania. Thus, the correct answers are Maryland and Pennsylvania as proprietary colonies.

only choose from the options i stated

From the options you provided, the colonies started by a proprietor are:

  1. Maryland
  2. Pennsylvania

Georgia and Virginia were not proprietary colonies; Virginia was established as a joint-stock colony, and Georgia was founded under different circumstances.