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If New England became a country with whatever PoD (before 1830, of course), would there be an incentive for overseas colonization?

What made me think about this was the geographic setting of New England. It's small, and has little land for large farming, and has a northern Continental climate. Would it make sense for New England to establish some sort of foothold in Africa or Asia? Perhaps of the African West Coast?

I'm assuming this would be the result (and likely result in) poorer US-New England relations?
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