Search results
Mar 7, 2019 · Print Page. Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images. Boston, the largest city in New England, is located on a hilly peninsula in Massachusetts Bay. The region had been inhabited since at least 2400 B.C. by...
Oct 27, 2009 · The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston between American colonists and British soldiers. It helped pave the way for the American...
Jun 17, 2010 · As the Massachusetts settlements expanded, they formed new colonies in New England. Puritans who thought that Massachusetts was not pious enough formed the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven...
Jul 21, 2010 · First Quaker colonists land at Boston. Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship carrying them lands at Boston in...
Nov 9, 2009 · The Siege of Boston, lasting from April 1775 to March 1776, led to the British evacuation of the city in the early stages of the American Revoultionary War.
Nov 9, 2009 · One of the original 13 colonies and one of the six New England states, Massachusetts (officially called a commonwealth) is perhaps best known for being the landing place of the Mayflower and...
Aug 16, 2021 · In patriotic fashion, Revere dedicated the print “[t]o every Lover of Liberty… by her true born Sons, in Boston New England."
