colonial

Flag Of New England

$29.97

History & sources

The red ensign that flew over New England from the 1680s, with a green pine in the canton. That tree wasn't decoration. Under the King's Broad Arrow policy, the tallest white pines in the colonies were marked with an axe and reserved for Royal Navy masts, whoever's land they happened to stand on. Colonists cut them anyway. By the Pine Tree Riot of 1772, the...

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The history

The red ensign that flew over New England from the 1680s, with a green pine in the canton. That tree wasn't decoration. Under the King's Broad Arrow policy, the tallest white pines in the colonies were marked with an axe and reserved for Royal Navy masts, whoever's land they happened to stand on. Colonists cut them anyway. By the Pine Tree Riot of 1772, the tree had stopped being timber and started being a position.