A history of the American nation . son and Gorges, two Englishmen who were for many yearsinterested in colonization, obtained at an early day a grant to all the landbotweon the Mornmac and the Kennebec. This property Avas later dividedand Mason became possessed of the territory- between the Merrimac andthe Piscataqua. Gorges received the remainder. Masons share was,roughly speaking. Xew Hampshire, and as we have seen, was after a timeannexeil to Mass^ichusetts. On Gorgess ^x^rtion of this grant were a num-Iht of little settlements, some of them made quite early in the history- ofNew England. T
A history of the American nation . son and Gorges, two Englishmen who were for many yearsinterested in colonization, obtained at an early day a grant to all the landbotweon the Mornmac and the Kennebec. This property Avas later dividedand Mason became possessed of the territory- between the Merrimac andthe Piscataqua. Gorges received the remainder. Masons share was,roughly speaking. Xew Hampshire, and as we have seen, was after a timeannexeil to Mass^ichusetts. On Gorgess ^x^rtion of this grant were a num-Iht of little settlements, some of them made quite early in the history- ofNew England. THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES—1607-1700 69 a league among the various New England colonies. The pur-pose of combining was to secure mutual protection. ThePequot War had shown the danger of an Indian outbreak.^Moreover, the Dutch on the Hudson were trouble-some and ambitious neighbors, while the Frenchat the north, though seemingly afar otT, had already shown thatthey were near enough to cause uneasiness if not dansier. Need of Extent of the Settlemiixts ix New Exglaxd ix 1660 A union was therefore formed: ^lassachusetts, ConnecticutPlymouth and New Haven, entering into a lirm and perpetual,league of friendship with the right to determineNew England ^^^^^ ^^jj matters of commou interest. The con- Coniederation, . i643-S4. tederation lasted some years, in fact not en- tirely disappearing until 16S4. It must havehad an important eflfect upon the later history of America. 70 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION Eighty years passed by before the popular representativesfrom all the colonies came together to protest against thenovel laws of England, and to body forth the real unityof interest in the settlements scattered along the Atlanticcoast; but a remembrance of the New England Confederationcould not have died out during those eighty years, and itdoubtless aided in the work of forming a perpetual union. From the outbreak of the civil war in England (1642)until the restoration of th
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