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The first instance of the association of colonies in America for mutual defence and protection, while they owed allegiance to the British Crown, was in 1643.
In that year, the colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven, apprehending danger from the surrounding Indians, entered into a league, offensive and defensive, firm and perpetual, under the name of the United Colonies of New England.
The authority to regulate the general concerns, to levy war and make requisitions of men and money upon the several members of the Union, was vested in an annual congress of commissioners, delegated from each colony.
This Confederacy subsisted for upwards of forty years, and was dissolved, under James II., in the year 1686.
It is generally considered that the association was the foundation of subsequent efforts for a more extensive union of the North American Colonies.
Various efforts were made for this purpose, and, in the year 1754, a congress was held at Albany,