Plymouth, Massachusetts, was established in 1620 with significant early help from Native Americans, particularly Squanto and Massasoit, Metacomet's father and chief of the Wampanoag tribe. Salem, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, and several small towns were established around Massachusetts Bay between 1628 and 1640. The building of towns such as Windsor, Connecticut (est. 1635), Hartford, Connecticut (est. 1636), Springfield, Massachusetts (est. 1636), and Northampton, Massachusetts (est. 1654), on the Connecticut River, and towns like Providence, Rhode Island, in Narragansett Bay (est. 1638) progressively encroached on Native American territories. Prior to King Philip's War tensions fluctuated between different groups of native people and the colonists, but relations were generally peaceful. As the colonists' small population grew inexorably larger over time and the number of towns increased, the Wampanoag, Nipmuck, Narragansett, Mohegan, Pequot tribes and other small tribes were each treated individually (many were traditional enemies of each other) by the English officials of Rhode Island, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven. The New Englanders continued to expand their settlements along the coastal plain and up the Connecticut River valley. By 1675 they had even established a few small towns in the interior between Boston and the Connecticut River. The Native Americans were running out of trade goods and territory and felt progressively squeezed by the colonists out of some of their traditional territories.
The English Civil War, followed by Oliver Cromwell's English Commonwealth, was fought and won by New England's Puritan allies who remained in England. After Cromwell's death in 1658 and the English Restoration of 1660, King Charles II of England was reestablished as monarch, but with restrictions set by the English Parliament. He was the son of the beheaded King Charles I of England and a bitter enemy of the Puritans.
By 1664 King Charles II had declared war on the Dutch and captured New York, installing Edmund Andros as governor there. The French in Canada hated almost all things English and would more likely support the Native Americans than the colonists. In 1675 the New England colonies were almost without allies in North America and would fight the war almost exclusively with their own money and militias
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