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Champlain enters Beauport in 1607 and meets with indigenous inhabitants.
Initial Charlestown location proves to be poor and colonists move to Shawmut. City remained largest English settlement unitil 1750.
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Exiled from Mass Bay because of separatist beliefs, Williams purchases land from indigenous and establishes Providence Rhode Island in 1636
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The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot.
Pequot War
Praying towns were settlements established by English colonial governments in New England from 1646 to 1675 in an effort to convert local Native Americans to Christianity.
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Plenty of fish, plenty of timber
History of lumber
History of Fishing in Gloucester
New England gradually assumed a growing role within the British empire based on trade. As early as the 1640s, New England merchants shipped and marketed the staples of other colonies to markets in Europe and Africa. They engaged in a particularly profitable trade with the West Indies, whose growing slave plantations they supplied with fish, timber, and agricultural produce gathered at home.
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English Civil War rages 1641 - 1651. Colonial affairs take back seat.
The English civil war forced settlers in America to reconsider their place within the empire. Older colonies like Virginia and proprietary colonies like Maryland sympathized with the crown. Newer colonies like Massachusetts Bay, populated by religious dissenters taking part in the Great Migration of the 1630s, tended to favor Parliament. Yet during the war the colonies remained neutral, fearing that support for either side could involve them in war. Even Massachusetts Bay, which nurtured ties to radical Protestants in Parliament, remained neutral.
English Civil War
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