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Learn more about the Massachusetts colony. ... Year Massachusetts Colony Founded: ... Separatists in England fled to Holland in 1608 and then decided to find refuge in America where they could create a home for themselves in the Massachusetts Colony. They came over on the Mayflower.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company , for the institution that founded it) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century...
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Colony Named for: Massachusetts tribe (word means "large hill place") ... More on Colonial Massachusetts; The Massachusetts Colony; Colonial History of Boston; Salem Witch Trials ... See also: The Making of the Massachusetts Colony...
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The role of Massachusetts Bay Colony in the history of the United States of America. ... The Massachusetts Bay Company and the colony were one and the same until 1684, when the charter was taken away. Later, in 1691, a new royal charter was granted to Massachusetts; the Plymouth Colony and Maine were absorbed.
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Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɨts/) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to ...
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When, however, the king abandoned his designs against the charter, Massachusetts became practically an independent colony. In 1643 even the oath of allegiance to the Crown was dropped, and for a long period the colony was wholly without interference from royal authority.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony Early English colony in Massachusetts . It was settled in 1630 by a group of 1,000 Puritan refugees from England ( see ... Early English colony in Massachusetts. It was settled in 1630 by a group of 1,000 Puritan refugees from England (see Puritanism). In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Co.
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Winthrop, John, 1588–1649, governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, b. Edwardstone, near Groton, Suffolk, England. Of a landowning family, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, came into a family fortune, and became a government administrator with strong Puritan leanings.
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