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	New England - LoveToKnow 1911
		NEW ENGLAND, a general name for the north-east section of the United States of America, embracing the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
		A separate colony was founded at New Haven in 1638 by emigrants from England who had stayed for a time in Boston and other Massachusetts towns, but this was annexed to Connecticut in 1664 under the Connecticut charter of 1662.
		New England is prominent in American colonial history as the "Land of the Puritans" and the home of the corporate colony.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /New_England (1189 words)

	New England Confederation - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New England Confederation union for "mutual safety and welfare" formed in 1643 by representatives of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven.
		They met in Boston and adopted a written constitution binding the colonies in a league as "The United Colonies of New England." The chief purpose of the league was coordination of defense and the settlement of boundary disputes; the internal affairs of each colony were to be left to its own management.
		With the revocation of the Massachusetts charter in 1684, the confederation was dissolved.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-newengcnf.html (405 words)

	NEW ENGLAND - Online Information article about NEW ENGLAND
		York claimed the territory and the dispute was not settled until the new state was erected in 1791.
		Confederation signed in 1643, the first form of colonial union in America; they called it The United Colonies of New England, but it is more commonly known as the New England Confederacy.
		war which the commissioners declared to be just were to be defrayed by the several colonies in proportion to their number of men and boys between the ages of sixteen and sixty.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NEW_ENGLAND.html (2789 words)

	New England Confederation
		As a result of the Pequot War of 1637, New England settlements were receptive to plans for strengthening colonial defenses against the threat of Indian attacks.
		Member colonies were motivated to join not only because of the fear of Indian attack, but also because of the threats posed by the Dutch in the New Netherland and the French in Canada.
		To assess member colonies for the costs of defense; proportionate dues were to be levied on the number of males, ages 16 to 60, residing in each colony.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h545.html (663 words)

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		The colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven as early as 1643, under the impression of danger from the surrounding tribes of Indians, entered into a league offensive and defensive, which they declared should be firm and perpetual, and be distinguished by the name of the United Colonies of New-England.
		They rejected all proposals for a division of the colonies into separate confederacies, and proposed a plan of federal government, consisting of a general council of delegates, to be triennially chosen by the provincial assemblies, and a president general, to be appointed by the crown.
		It was probably supposed, on the one hand, that the operation of the union would teach the colonies the secret of their own strength, and the proper means to give it activity and direction; while, on the other part, the colonies were jealous of the preponderating influence of the royal prerogative.
	www.constitution.org /jk/jk_010.txt (3264 words)

	New England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 18th century, New England was one of the first North American British colonies to demonstrate ambitions of independence from the British Crown, although it would later oppose the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain.
		The name "New England" was officially sanctioned on November 3, 1620, when the charter of the Virginia Company of Plymouth was replaced by a royal charter for the Plymouth Council for New England, a joint stock company established to colonize and govern the region.
		New England's geography is the result of retreating ice sheets that shaped the landscape thousands of years ago, leaving behind long rolling hills, mountains, and a jagged coastline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_England (6255 words)

	New England Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a political and military alliance of the British colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven.
		Established in 1643, its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies against the Indians.
		The New England Confederation was highly successful in terms of bonding the colonies together, and provided a basis for the further collaboration of Colonies in times such as the American Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_England_Confederation (256 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 363, NEW ENGLAND UNION: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The church connection between the first four colonies was intimate, and at one of the annual synods held at Boston in 1637, a civil alliance was proposed.
		Connecticut at first refused her consent, unless a veto power should be reserved to each colony; but an increasing pressure from the Dutch forced her to withdraw her opposition, and in 1643 the union was perfected, under the name of "The United Colonies of New England".
		The affairs of the union were administered by two commissioners from each colony, the votes of six of the eight commissioners being necessary for valid action.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy754.html (599 words)

	End of the Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The colonial charters were revoked and Plymouth Colony became part of the United Colonies of New England, along with Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey.
		As of 1692, Plymouth Colony was combined with Massachusetts Bay Colony, which eventually became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
		Instead of being capitol of an independent colony, the town of Plymouth became the seat of Plymouth County, which it still is today.
	www.pilgrimhall.org /endcolony.htm (223 words)

	John Winthrop the Younger
		John Winthrop, generally known as John Winthrop the Younger, son of John Winthrop was born at Groton, England, on the 12th of February 1606.
		He became one of the magistrates of Connecticut in 1651; in 1657-8 was Governor of the colony; and in 1659 again became Governor, being annually re-elected until his death.
		In 1662 he obtained in England the charter by which the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven were united.
	www.nndb.com /people/576/000050426 (255 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Two: New England (2/8) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New England in the northeast has generally thin, stony soil, relatively little level land, and long winters, making it difficult to make a living from farming.
		By the end of the colonial period, one-third of all vessels under the British flag were built in New England.
		New England shippers soon discovered, too, that rum and slaves were profitable commodities.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch2_p2.htm (282 words)

	NEW ENGLAND AFFAIRS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The name adopted was "The United Colonies of New England"' the union was a loose confederation, each colony retaining its home government as before.
		The main object in uniting was to protect themselves the better from their common enemies--from the Indians about them, from the Dutch on the west, the French on the north, and even from possible dangers from the mother country, which was, at that moment, in the throes of civil war.
		The expenses as well as the spoils of war were to be divided among the colonies, in proportion to their respective male populations between the ages of sixteen and threescore years.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/book/chap6.html (533 words)

	The Regional Review (1938)
		The forces of the United Colonies under Governor Winslow marched across Rhode Island and on December 14 attacked the village of the Squaw Sachem Matantuck near Wickford and burned 150 wigwams, killing seven Indians and taking nine prisoners.
		To the terrors of the battle and fire were added the bitter cold and blinding snow of a New England blizzard through which the English toiled back to Cocumcussa.
		Around the mound on which the shaft stands are four roughly squared granite markers engraved with the names of the colonies which took part in the encounter and two tablets on opposite sides of the shaft give additional data.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/regional_review/vol1-6f.htm (855 words)

	Financial Sense "Social Security ~ The Dance of the Seven Veils, Part 7" by Douglas V. Gnazzo 07/12/2005
		Included were the Plantations under the Government of Massachusetts, the Plantations under the Government of New Plymouth, the Plantations under the Government of Connecticut, and the Government of New Haven with the Plantations in Combination therewith.
		The language of the document clearly indicates that the motivating force behind the union was the age old truism of safety in numbers, as well as the positive effect that an increase in combined skilled labor has on the division of labor, and hence on the economy in general.
		He was very concerned that the new Constitution, as it stood, would trample upon, and limit, individual rights and freedoms, in favor of the new central State Government.
	www.financialsense.com /fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/truth/part7.html (5846 words)

	John Webster
		He was one of the original landholders of Hartford, was a member of the committee that sat with the Court of Magistrates of the Colony of Connecticut in 1637 and 1638, and became an Assistant to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut in 1639.
		He was a Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England in 1654.
		The Half-Way Covenant was approved by a New England church synod in 1662 and finally passed by the Connecticut legislature in May 1669.
	www.cslib.org /gov/websterj.htm (903 words)

	NEW ENGLAND: eBook Search Results (e-Book, e-Books, eBooks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Fathers of New England: A chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths [Chronicles of Amer.
		The Conquest of New England by the Immigrant
		The Conquest of New England by the Immigrant [the Yankee, expansion and deterioration - homogeneity to heteroge
	www.digitalbookindex.com /_search/search010hstregionalnewenglanda.asp (669 words)

	The Essence of War: Metacomet and the New England Indian Revolt of 1675-6
		Samuel Morison, describes the United Colonies as the primary organ that “handled Indian affairs, and had the power to declare war.
		Being as he was at the United Colonies of New England, Philip tried to play the colonies against one another.
		Philip feigned ignorance, saying that he was unaware that the treaty he had signed required total capitulation to the legal jurisdiction of the Plymouth colony.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/alh59/kingphilip.htm (6645 words)

	The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643
		And if there be help required, for the safe returning of any such offender, then it shall be granted to him that craves the same, he paying the charges thereof.
		In testimony whereof, the General Court of the Massachusetts by their Secretary, and the Commissioners for Connecticut and New Haven, have subscribed these present articles of this nineteenth of the third month, commonly called May, Anno Domini 1643.
		This document on record within "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America "- Registered under the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906 by Francis Newton Thorpe -Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.
	members.aol.com /Prophet007/HD/aaneweng.html (341 words)

	Plymouth Colony Grows
		The colonists continued to spread onto traditional Native lands as new colonies were established.
		In 1643, the four colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut and New Haven formed a loose confederation called the United Colonies of New England, to provide for common safety and to provide a forum for the discussion of issues of common concern.
		In 1650, the Governor of Canada sent the Jesuit priest Gabriel Druillettes as an emissary, in hopes of gaining the assistance of the New England colonies in subduing the hostile Iroquois.
	www.pilgrimhall.org /colgrows.htm (518 words)

	New England Confederation — FactMonster.com
		United Colonies of New England - United Colonies of New England: see New England Confederation.
		John Haynes - Haynes, John, c.1594–1654, colonial governor of Massachusetts and then of Connecticut.
		Edward Hopkins - Hopkins, Edward, 1600–1657, colonial governor of Connecticut, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0835403.html (346 words)

	Red, White, Blue, and Brimstone:"The Lost Tribes of Israel"
		The Clear Sun-shine of the Gospel Breaking Forth upon the Indians in New England.
		John Eliot, minister of the gospel there, in a letter by him directed to the right worshipfull the commissioners under his Majesties great-seal for the propagation of the gospel amongst the poor blind natives in those United Colonies.
		Translated into the Indian language, and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, at the charge, and with the consent of the corporation in England for the propagation of the Gospel among the Indians in New-England.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/brimstone/tribes.html (986 words)

	Journal of an embassy from Canada to the United Colonies of New England, in 1650.: a machine-readable transcription.
		Journal of an embassy from Canada to the United Colonies of New England, in 1650.: a machine-readable transcription.
		The union of the New England colonies in 1648 forms a remarkable epoch in our history, as showing the progress of those ideas which resulted in the present union of the various European colonies from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande.
		Dutley, (Dudley), Governor of all the Colony of Boston.
	memory.loc.gov /service/gc/gckb/039/039.sgm (6041 words)

	United Colonies of New England — Infoplease.com
		Before New England: the Popham Colony: Richard L. Pflederer visits the site of the first short-lived English colony in Maine set up......
		A case of unconstitutional immigration: the importation of England's national curriculum to the United States.
		British mercantilism and crop controls in the tobacco colonies: a study of rent-seeking costs.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0919923.html (205 words)

	The Avalon Project : The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643
		The Avalon Project : The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643
		The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643
		The Articles of Confederation between the Plantations under the Government of the Massachusetts, the Plantations under the Government of New Plymouth, the Plantations under the Government of Connecticut, and the Government of New Haven with the Plantations in Combination therewith:
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/art1613.htm (317 words)

	1643, 19 May. NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The government was a board of eight commissioners, two from each colony, chosen annually by their respective general courts.
		The commissioners were empowered to declare both offensive and defensive war, the expenses for which were to be borne by the colonies in proportion to the number of their male inhabitants between 16 and 60.
		In addition, the commissioners were given jurisdiction over interstate quarrels, fugitive servants, fugitives from justice, and Indian affairs.
	www.montauk.com /history/ne_1643.htm (124 words)

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