About this time, also, many settlers had gone to Maine, and were living without any regular government.

There were likewise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire.
Thus, at various points along the coast of New England, there were communities of Englishmen.

Though these communities were independent of one another, yet they had a common dependence upon England; and, at so vast a distance from their native home, the inhabitants must all have felt like brethren.

They were fitted to become one united people, at a future period.

Perhaps their feelings of brotherhood were the stronger, because different nations had formed settlements to the north and to the south.