MAP ACTIVITY Map 4.1 New England Colonies in the Seventeenth Century New Englanders spread across the landscape town by town during the seventeenth century. (For the sake of legibility, only a few of the more important towns are shown on the map.) READING THE MAP: Using the dates on the map, create a chronology of the establishment of New England towns. What physical features correspond to the earliest habitation by English settlers? CONNECTIONS: Why were towns so much more a feature of seventeenth-