A map of the Dominion of New England (1686), showing the early settlements and the general tribal lands of the Pawtuckets, Massachusetts, Wampanoags, Narragansets, Nipmucks, Pequods, and Mohegans. "New England, a collective name given to six E. States of the U.S. mdash; Me., N.H., Vt., Mass., R.I., and Conn. - including an area of about 68,000 sq. m. The people, mostly descended from an English Puritan and Scottish ancestry, are celebrated for industry and enterprise. This region was granted by James I to the Plymouth Company in 1606, under the title of N. Va., and the coast was explored by Capt. John Smith in 1614." - W. H. DePuy, 1881.