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In 1638, on the tail end of the other New England colonies being established, an extreme Puritan colony called New Haven (capital New Haven) was founded without a charter in order to attempt an even closer church-state relationship than in Massachusetts Bay, which was famed for its religious intolerance and devout Puritan style of life and governance. However, they sheltered two of the judges that condemned Charles I to death, leading his son, Charles II, to merge the New Haven colony with the startlingly democratic Connecticut colony in 1662.

Would keeping them from sheltering those judges be enough for the colony to stay independent? How would this occur? And, if it did stay it's own seperate colony, would it be merged with New York* once/if the English take it, or will it remain a small Rhode Island-esque vestige of the small coastal colonial system? Finally, would this change the social trends that led to the American Revolution, and, if not, would the presence of 14 rather than 13 colonies make that large a difference in an alt-Revolution?
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