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Nov 9, 2009 · Puritans fled in large numbers beginning in 1630: One of the first of these included John Winthrop, future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ... Her husband rose to prominence in Boston ...
Nov 13, 2020 · After the Pilgrims received a patent from the Virginia Company to establish a settlement in its ... The arrival of the Puritans and the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s ...
Nov 4, 2011 · The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women ...
Feb 9, 2010 · Robinson and Stevenson, who were hanged from an elm tree on Boston Common in Boston, were the first Quakers to be executed in America. Quakers found solace in Rhode Island and other colonies, ...
Feb 9, 2010 · Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson—like Williams, she had been exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons ...
May 25, 2017 · And, notably, the grandson of Irish immigrants to Boston, Joseph P. Kennedy, rose through the ranks of the Democratic Party in the first half of the 20th century, becoming the first head of the ...
Dec 22, 2015 · The Puritans noted that the scriptures did not mention a season, ... When newly appointed royal governor Sir Edmund Andros attended Christmas Day religious services at Boston’s Town House in ...