The New England Colonies of British America included the colonies of Connecticut, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts, and Province of New Hampshire. They were part of the Thirteen Colonies, along with the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies. These were early colonies of what would later be the states inNew England.[1] Captain John Smith, of Pocahontas fame, was the author of "A Description of New England" published in 1616, first applying the term "New England"[2] to coastal lands of North America from the Long Island Sound to Newfoundland.[3]