Possible Clues:

• Countries under the control of other countries
• Ant groups
• Onetime set of 13
• 13 in the American Revolution
• Awful noise after officer appears in British territories once?
• Bunches of bees and blackbirds
• Pass -- one is to be shown going round settlements
• Countries settled by and under the control of other countries
• Stamp Act protesters
• That's where they've come for settlement