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English society exploded into dozens of religious, social, and economic fragments in the 17th century. These warring shards blew across the Atlantic to create a dazzling kaleidoscope from modern-day New Hampshire to the Caribbean. Zealous Protestants, Catholic exiles, pacifist Quakers, merchant buccaneers, misfits of all sorts, and flotsam from Europe created an English colonial world that looked nothing like the home isles. This disputatious wrangle of colonies fought among themselves, generally despised one other, had economic bases that ranged from feudal recreations to utopian pastoral villages, and gave no hint that they might ever be a future country. We will examine this hectoring lot of malcontents by looking at the symbols of their societies.