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The New England Acadian flag features a redesigned Flag of Acadia tricolor with blue and white vertical stripes becoming sideways triangles. The flag features the traditional "Star of the Sea" in the blue stripe, and in the white stripe a traditional New England pine. [35] Flag adopted by the New England Governors' Conference
The Council for New England was a 17th-century English joint stock company to which James I of England awarded a royal charter, with the purpose of expanding his realm over parts of North America by establishing colonial settlements.
The company leaders sought a royal charter for the colony because they were concerned about the legality of conflicting land claims given to several companies (including the New England Company) for the little-known territories of the New World, and because of the increasing number of Puritans who wanted to join them.
Illustration of the flag, Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company American history booklet, 1898. A flag with a pine tree on it, "a red flag with the cross of St. George in the canton with a green pine tree in the first quarter", was used in New England as early as 1704, and may have flown at Bunker Hill in 1775. It also appeared having a "white field ...
New England is a region consisting of six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north.
In use as a flag of New England 1775–present. This Pine Tree Flag variant was the first flag adopted by the State of Massachusetts after independence. In use from 1775–1780 as the state flag, and until 1971 as the official Massachusetts naval flag.