None, meeting place rotated between: Boston, Hartford, New Haven, Plymouth[1]
Common languages
English Massachusett, Mi'kmaq
Religion
Congregationalism
Government
Directorial confederation
Commissioners
• 1643 (first)
William Collier Thomas Dudley Edward Winslow Theophilus Eaton George Fenwick Thomas Gregson Edward Hopkins John Winthrop[2]
• 1686 (last)
John Allyn William Bradford IV Thomas Hinckley Samuel Nowell William Stoughton John Talcott John Walley[3]
Legislature
None (legislative power was reserved for individual colonial assemblies)
Historical era
Great Migration, British colonization of the Americas, American Indian Wars, Anglo-Dutch Wars
• Established
1643
• Disestablished
1686
The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a confederal alliance of the New England colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Saybrook (Connecticut), and New Haven formed in May 1643. Its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies in support of the church, and for defense against the American Indians and the Dutch colony of New Netherland.[4] It was the first milestone on the long road to colonial unity and was established as a direct result of a war that started between the Mohegan and Narragansett Indian tribes. Its charter provided for the return of fugitive criminals and indentured servants, and served as a forum for resolving inter-colonial disputes. In practice, none of the goals were accomplished.[5]
The confederation was weakened in 1654 after Massachusetts Bay refused to join an expedition against New Netherland during the First Anglo-Dutch War, although it regained importance during King Philip's War in 1675. It was dissolved after numerous colonial charters were revoked in the early 1680s.
John Quincy Adams remarked at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society on the 200th anniversary of the Confederation's founding:
The New England confederacy was destined to a life of less than forty years' duration. Its history, like that of other confederacies, presents a record of incessant discord-of encroachments by the most powerful party upon the weaker members, and of disregard, by all the separate members, of the conclusions adopted by the whole body. Still the main purpose of the union was accomplished.[6]
^Ward 1961, p. 63
^Ward 1961, p. 400-11
^Ward 1961, p. 400-11
^William Henry Carpenter, Timothy Shay Arthur. The history of Connecticut: from its earliest settlement to the present time (1872), ch. 5
^John Andrew Doyle. English Colonies in America: The Puritan colonies (1889), ch. 8
^Quincy Adams 1843, p. 44-45
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