The magistrates and deputies clash on the institutions of the Standing Council and the negative voice, and a lawsuit by Robert Keayne over Goody Sherman's sow plays a key role in this.  The deputies represent democracy, and the magistrates aristocracy.  

Nathaniel Wards Body of Liberties is finally adopted, and Massachusetts sends the Welde-Peters mission to England to advocate for the colony, and agitate for Parliament.  

The king demands the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter, and colonists refuse to send it.  Then, the trial of wealthy merchant Robert Keayne helps set the colony's political and economic path.  

The Tripartite Treaty, or Treaty of Hartford, ended the Pequot War, but established a post-war order which caused conflict between Massachusetts, Connecticut, the Mohegans and the Narragansetts.  

After the Block Island Raid, the Pequots laid siege to Saybrook, and both sides prepared for war.  After the Pequots attacked Wethersfield, Connecticut, the English declared war.  A small force snuck into the heart of Pequot territory for a surprise attack on the largest Pequot fort, Mystic. They burned it, killed all its inhabitants, and won the war in a single hour.  

At the same time as the Antinomian Controversy raged, war broke out with the Pequots.  In 1637, the Pequots were a tribe on the decline, but thanks to misinformation, still terrifying to the English.  After the murder of John Oldham, Massachusetts sent John Endicott on a retaliatory raid.  This raid led to war.  

Four days after clergy held a synod to determine theological truths, the Court decided to eliminate the heresy by any means necessary.  Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson were convicted of sedition and banished after long, heated trials, and their supporters were given the choice between recanting and banishment.  Under increasing scrutiny, and faced with a complete lack of control of the movement, Cotton finally turned against it.  

Political maneuvering and outright hostility turned a Bostonian theological movement into the basis of a colony-wide controversy.  

Also known as the Free Grace Controversy, this dispute pitted John Winthrop and most non-Boston leadership against Anne Hutchinson, Henry Vane and John Wheelwright (supported by John Cotton).  It was a battle for the theological and political heart of the colony.  

As the king prepared to fully take over Massachusetts, the colonists first dabbled with the idea of independence. Meanwhile, a new group of settlers arrived with a patent to colonize an area of Connecticut.  A second group left Massachusetts for Connecticut after clashes with John Cotton, and Roger Williams was exiled, and spent the winter with the Narragansetts before founding Providence, Rhode Island.  The beginnings of trade were also emerging.