The Other States of America: History Podcast

Sir Edmund Andros, Governor-General of the Dominion of New England, a super colonial entity containing what will one day be 6 of the original 13 colonies, faces the oncoming wave of the Glorious Revolution as it crosses the Atlantic breaks upon the American shore. The outcome will shape American History to our present time.

With the era of isolation rapidly closing for the Puritan Colonies, King James II seeks to unifying New England (and beyond) into a massive super-colonial dominion, governed by Sir Edmund Andros without an assembly, in defiance of the Magna Carta.

Governor Phillip Carteret running his cousin's colony of New Jersey faces the humiliation of having the colony taken by the Dutch, and then split into two once back in English hands. Now the Governor of the Colony of East New Jersey Carteret and his successors will have to battle the constant threat of being absorbed by New York, while dealing with a population always teetering on rebellion.

The persecuted Quakers search for a refuge in the New World and manage to tear away half of the New Jersey Colony for themselves.

With New Jersey still in Dutch hands Lord Berkeley is convinced to sell his half-interest in the Colony to a man named John Fenwick, and in a quick turn of events the New Jersey Colony is split into three East New Jersey, West New Jersey and Fenwick's Colony, perhaps the most peculiar of them all.

With the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the New York and New Jersey Colonies, rife with internal strife, are barely governable with wavering loyalties. An Admiral from Holland and an Admiral from Zeeland plot to restore the colony of New Netherland.

Sir Edmund Plowden (or Ployden) designs an American Colony for which he and his seventeen children will rule as lords over feudal estates, aided by the Knight of New Albion, intent on spreading Catholicism by the book or the sword. However, the territory granted to Sir Edmund by King Charles I overlaps that of New Netherland, New Sweden, an offshoot of the New Haven Colony and the Leni Lenape. Despite the overwhelming challenges ahead, Sir Edmund sails to the New World to set them all straight.

The four Puritan colonies of New England, after one successful decade of confederation, faces headwinds internally and externally as the Dutch, Natives, English authorities and their own settlers threaten to disrupt the Puritan Oligarchy.

After 54 years of peace, the tension between the English and the Pokanoket leaders of the Wampanoag Paramount Chiefdom boil over into the one of the deadliest wars, per capita, in history.

An often overlooked period in Wampanoag history is the period of time between the height of Ousamequin's power among the Wampanoag in 1624-25 and his son Metacomet's decision to attack the settlers at Swansea in 1675. However, this period is full of Native politics, suspected poisonings, fraudulent wills, a rumors of war.