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Apr 19, 2024 · In 1629 King Charles I of England granted the Massachusetts Bay Company a charter to trade in and colonize the part of New England that lay approximately between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers, and settlement began in 1630. Boston was made the capital in 1632.
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The Mayflower carried a mixture of English and Netherlands Separatists, the Pilgrims, to America in 1620. Forty-one colonists on board the ship signed the Mayflower Compact, on November 11, 1620. This was the first written governmental framework in the New World. In 1629, a fleet of 12 ships known as the Winthrop Fleet left England and headed for M...
Though Winthrop's Fleet landed at Salem, they did not stay; the tiny settlement simply couldn't support hundreds of additional settlers. Within a short time, Winthropand his group had moved, at the invitation of Winthrop's college friend William Blackstone, to a new location on a nearby peninsula. In 1630, they renamed their settlement Boston after...
During the first decade of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, several political crises occurred, unfolding simultaneously, concerning the way religion was practiced in the colony. One of those is known as the "Antinomian Crisis" which resulted in the departure of Anne Hutchinson(1591–1643) from Massachusetts Bay. She was preaching in a manner that prove...
In the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Puritans carried out a war of extermination against the Pequots in 1637, and a war of attrition against the Narragansetts. In 1643, the English turned the Narragansett sachem (leader) Miantonomo (1565–1643) over to his enemies, the Mohegan tribe, where he was summarily killed. But beginning ...
Massachusetts played a key role in the American Revolution. In December 1773, Boston was the site of the famous Boston Tea Partyin reaction to the Tea Act that had been passed by the British. Parliament reacted by passing acts to control the colony, including a naval blockade of the harbor. The first Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia on...
Breen, Timothy H., and Stephen Foster. "The Puritans' Greatest Achievement: A Study of Social Cohesion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts." The Journal of American History60.1 (1973): 5–22. Print.Brown, Richard D., and Jack Tager. "Massachusetts: A Concise History." Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.Field, Jonathan Beecher. "The Antinomian Controversy Did Not Take Place." Early American Studies6.2 (2008): 448–63. Print.Lucas, Paul R. "Colony or Commonwealth: Massachusetts Bay, 1661–1666." The William and Mary Quarterly24.1 (1967): 88–107. Print.In September of 1630, the colonists officially named the settlement Boston after their hometown in England. By the mid 1630s, the Puritans had invited hundreds of more colonists over from England and were taking over the area.
Feb 10, 2024 · 1629—1763. Massachusetts Bay Colony was established in 1629 when King Charles I issued a charter that established the Massachusetts Bay Company and gave the company permission to establish a settlement in New England.
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Jan 18, 2021 · Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628-1691 CE) was the largest English settlement in New England and the most influential both in the colonization of the region and later developments in what would become the United States of America.
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Dec 14, 2019 · In September, the colonists officially name their settlement Boston after Boston, England. 1632 – The colonists officially make Boston the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1634 – William Blackstone sells his 50 acre farm in Boston to the colonists, which they use as a community common now known as Boston Common, and leaves for Rhode ...
The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with initial settlements on two natural harbors and surrounding land about 15.4 miles (24.8 km) apart—the areas around Salem and Boston, north of the previously established Plymouth Colony.
