The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a political and military alliance of the Britishcolonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. Established in 1643, its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies against the Indians. It also provided for the return of fugitive criminals and indentured servants, and served as a forum for resolving inter-colonial disputes. The confederation disintegrated in the 1650s after Massachusetts refused to join the war against the Netherlands during the First Anglo-Dutch War.
External links
The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/art1613.htm)
NEWENGLAND, 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.
NewEngland is prominent in American colonial history as the "Land of the Puritans" and the home of the corporate colony.
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