Plantations of New England

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The Plantations of New England were a series of colonisation efforts by Europeans on the east coast of North America, a land that they called New England.

A seventeenth century map shows New England as a costal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France while its interior is rendered New Belgium, New Netherland and Irocoisia
A seventeenth century map shows New England as a costal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France while its interior is rendered New Belgium, New Netherland and Irocoisia

The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. The region was subsequently divided through further grants, including the 1629 royal grant of "Hampshire" which was issued for "makeing a Plantation & establishing of a Colony or Colonyes in the Countrey called or knowen by ye name of New England in America."


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