The government in Halifax also soon began to break its promises. The Planters had initially been promised that their township governance model would be allowed in the new colony, but it was soon overturned for a centralized governance model, based in Halifax. That created a minor crisis but was overshadowed by the need to build new homes and farms to support the Planters' families. Town assemblies of a sort continued until 1770, when they were finally forbidden because of the sympathetic position emanating from the gatherings for the rebels to the south. Now a young man, Alline is likely to have participated in the assemblies. That was one of the factors that would lead the Planters to question where their loyalties lay: to the British or to their brethren in the Thirteen Colonies.