New towns appeared.

Colonial livestock damaged Native planting and gathering areas.

Land transactions transferred more territory into English hands.

Missionaries pushed Christian conversion.

English courts increasingly asserted jurisdiction over Native people.

Economic relationships changed as the fur trade shifted.

Ousamequin spent much of his leadership balancing these pressures while maintaining peace.

After his death, tensions worsened.

His sons inherited a world in which English settlements were no longer vulnerable coastal outposts.

They were expanding colonies.