 The already existing contest between the mostly Parliamentarian Adventurers (shareholders) of the company in England and the Bermudians, who had their own House of Assembly (and many of whom were becoming landowners as they were sold the land they had previously farmed as tenants as the profitability of the tobacco farmed exclusively for the company fell), placed the Bermudians on the side of the Crown despite the large number of Puritans in the colony.Bermudians were attempting to shift their economy from tobacco to a maritime one and were being thwarted by the Company, which relied on revenue from tobacco cultivation.Bermuda was the first colony to recognise Charles II as King in 1649.