Can someone revise my paragraph?

Many students believe that Plymouth was the first pemannt european settlement in New England, but this is not true. Samuel de Champlain built a fort in what is known today as Vermont. hat was twelve years before the Mayflwer deposited its passengers on the shore's of Massachusetts. The British won control of the area after the French and Indian War, and named it New Connecticut in 1777. Connecticut was settled in 1635. Champlain claimed the area of France. Later that year, residents of the New Connecticut changed its name to Vermont.