With the era of isolation rapidly closing for the Puritan Colonies, King James II sought to unify New England (and beyond) into a massive super-colonial dominion, governed by Sir Edmund Andros without an assembly, in defiance of the Magna Carta. Click here for a 67-minute video of the rise of the dominion of New England presented on August 15, 2024 by The Other States of America History Podcast.

It would be none other than John Smith of Jamestown fame who would create a map of the Northern claim held by the Virginia Company of Plymouth and on it, instead of calling it Northern Virginia or the northern part of Virginia or Nora, he called the land New England

Edmund Andros (above, left and right) arrived in late 1674 to retake the New York York colony after it had been taken over by the Dutch. John Fenwick (above, center) had his own colony in and around modern day Salem, New Jersey, delegitimizing the other English Governors around him. Governor Andros arrived in the city of Boston, the place that will become the capital of the Dominion, and with him he brought 60 Red Coats (English Regulars).

Andros takes firm control of not only Massachusetts but the Plymouth Colony and New Hampshire and Maine, which often fell under the domain of Massachusetts, and then, of course, Naragansett country.