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The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects from 1620 to 1640, declining sharply afterwards. The term Great Migration can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] They came in family groups rather than as isolated ...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with initial ...
1630. 8 April – Winthrop Fleet: The ship Arbella and three others set sail from the Solent with 400 passengers under the leadership of John Winthrop headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America as part of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640); seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.
June – Scottish-born Presbyterian Alexander Leighton is brought before Archbishop William Laud 's Star Chamber court in England for publishing the seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy (printed in the Netherlands, 1628). He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side ...
Events from the year 1630 in Denmark. Incumbents. Monarch – Christian IV; Events. 27 March ... This page was last edited on 28 April 2024, at 18:29 (UTC).
Thomas Grantham (died 1630) Sir Thomas Grantham (1573 – 30 July 1630) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1629. Grantham was the son of Vincent Grantham of Goltho and St Katherines, Lincolnshire. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 9 May 1589, aged 16, and was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1592 .
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