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  Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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, in New England, centered around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston.
But it was the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its successors around the Salem and Boston areas which would come to dominate the New England region in population and economic strength.
From 1686, Massachusetts Bay was administratively unified by the English king with the other New England colonies in the Dominion of New England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony   (1572 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a crown colony organized October 7, 1691 in North America by the monarch of England.
The South Shore of Massachusetts is a geographic region stretching south and east from Boston along the shore of Massachusetts Bay toward Cape Cod.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a crown colony organized October 7, 1691 in North America by William and Mary the joint monarchs of England and Scotland.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony   (5370 words)

  
 Massachusetts Bay
To this the Massachusetts Bay Company agreed, and John Winthrop, a gentleman of wealth and education, one of the strongest and most admirable characters in the pioneer history of America, was chosen governor.
The settlers of the Bay colony had their hardships, -- the long, harsh winters, the unfertile soil, the lurking red man, often hostile, and other obstacles common to pioneer life, -- but the growth of the colony was phenomenal.
The people of Massachusetts were proud of their theocratic government; they had labored and sacrified much to obtain it, and probably it was the very best for them at the time.
www.usahistory.info /New-England/Massachusetts.html   (3109 words)

  
 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1] formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA area.
The outer routes to the north and south were bought from the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway in 1968, and the west suburban routes in 1972 from the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway (note: both of these companies had long since ceased running any streetcar service).
Massachusetts agreed to build several transit projects as remediation for the environmental impacts of the Big Dig.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Transportation_Authority   (3752 words)

  
 Insurance - Jack vs. Massachusetts Bay Ins Co Hearing Decision
Juliane Anderson, Personal Lines Underwriter at Massachusetts Bay, stated in her affidavit that an inspection was performed in January 2002 which revealed peeling paint on the eave trim, window trim, and the house itself.
Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company bears the burden of proof for establishing that the statutory grounds for policy nonrenewal exist.
Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company is directed to renew policy # VP4576093 on the same terms as the expiring policy.
www.state.me.us /pfr/ins/hearing_2003-12556.htm   (837 words)

  
 Archives: Researching Your Family's History at the Massachusetts Archives
Archives holdings date from the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 and document the settlement of lands in Maine and Massachusetts, the arrival of immigrants, and the development of state government.
Massachusetts officials started recording the names of immigrants who arrived by ship in 1848, a procedure which continued until 1891, when federal records-keeping programs superseded those of the state.
Documenting the development of the Massachusetts Bay government and settlement of its lands between 1630 and 1800, the collection includes original records of the Governor, Council, the General Court, the Secretary, and the Treasurer.
www.state.ma.us /sec/arc/arcgen/genidx.htm   (3868 words)

  
 Massachusetts Bay Company - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY [Massachusetts Bay Company] English chartered company that established the Massachusetts Bay colony in New England.
In 1629 the New England Company obtained a royal charter as the "Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England." Almost immediately the emphasis changed from trade to religion, as the Puritan stockholders conceived of the colony as a religious and political refuge for their sect.
Since the royal charter did not specify where the stockholders should meet, this arrangement was made, and the Massachusetts Bay Company became the only one of the English chartered colonization companies not subject to the control of a board of governors in England.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MassachB1C1.asp   (555 words)

  
 Massachusetts bay colony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 Massachusetts Bay Colony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company, forthe institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Bay Company replaced both of these when the Puritans were able toconvert the patents into a royal charter on March 4, 1629.
The colony's charter granted to the Massachusetts General Court the authority to elect officers and to make laws.
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 Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay were Calvinists, but with their own points of emphasis.
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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 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1990): Chapter One: Strict Religion rules New England ...
The one that occupied the Massachusetts Bay region (Boston) after 1630 played a significant part in the development of all New England.
Other Massachusetts settlers filtered into the region to the north, and soon New Hampshire and Maine were colonized by men and women seeking liberty and land.
Building their own vessels and sailing them to ports all over the world, the shipmasters of Massachusetts Bay laid the foundation for a trade that was to grow steadily in importance.
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 Massachusetts Bay Trading Co. Teams Up with Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities to Fund Mass Moments - MBTC to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Massachusetts Bay Trading Company (www.massbaytrading.com), the web store featuring Massachusetts-made products, has agreed to donate a portion of its March sales to the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
Massachusetts Bay Trading Company has been expanding in response to the dramatic increase in sales this past holiday shopping season as demand for Massachusetts products has grown.
Massachusetts Bay Trading Company, located in the Boston area, was founded on Patriots Day, 2002 as the first web store dedicated to promoting the rich heritage of Massachusetts and the quality products originating in state.
www.prweb.com /releases/200538/2/prwebxml211221.php   (591 words)

  
 Winthrop, John, 1588-1649, governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Winthrop, John, 1588-1649, governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
A member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, he led the group that arranged for the removal of the company’s government to New England and was chosen (1629) governor of the proposed colony.
He was—with the possible exception of John Cotton—the most distinguished citizen of Massachusetts Bay colony, serving as governor some 12 times.
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 An Analysis of the Impacts of Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall Relocation on Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay and ...
As a result of a court-ordered mandate, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) has ceased the discharge of digested sludge to Boston Harbor and is presently constructing a 1,080 MGD secondary (1,200 MGD primary) treatment facility on Deer Island, with a 15.3 km outfall to Massachusetts Bay.
In this analysis, the hydrodynamic and water quality models were rerun assuming that the MWRA outfall would be relocated from Boston Harbor into Massachusetts Bay at a distance approximately 15 km east of the current Dear Island outfall and at a water depth of 32 meters.
The reason that the outfall will have little impact of Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod water quality is due, in part, to the fact that the outfall plume will be trapped below the pycnocline of the water column during the summer months.
www.hydroqual.com /Papers/jfitzpatrick/a_jjf_01.htm   (862 words)

  
 Contaminant Transport in Massachusetts Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Map showing Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays with generalized bathymetry, existing sewage outfalls in Boston Harbor, and location of the future outfall for treated Boston sewage in Massachusetts Bay.
Studies are conducted cooperatively with scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The multidisciplinary geologic study of the Massachusetts Bays conducted by the USGS develops techniques that quantify and predict processes of sediment transport and contamination accumulation.
marine.usgs.gov /fact-sheets/mass/mass-bay.html   (1041 words)

  
 Massachusetts Constitution
It is, therefore, not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of every citizen, that the judges of the supreme judicial court should hold their offices as long as they behave themselves well; and that they should have honorable salaries ascertained and established by standing laws.
And the senate and house of representatives may try, and determine, all cases where their rights and privileges are concerned, and which, by the constitution, they have authority to try and determine, by committees of their own members, or in such other way as they may respectively think best.
All commissions shall be in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, signed by the governor and attested by the secretary or his deputy, and have the great seal of the commonwealth affixed thereto.
www.state.ma.us /legis/const.htm   (6311 words)

  
 MASSACHUSETTS BAY--COLONIZATION--NEW ENGLAND
The settlers of the Bay colony had their hardships, --the long, harsh winters, the unfertile soil, the lurking red man, often hostile, and other obstacles common to pioneer life, --but the growth of the colony was phenomenal.
Butin 1636 Harry Vane, a young man who had arrived the yearbefore, the son and heir of a high official in England, was chosen to fill the office.
It was at this early period that two notable events mark the history of Massachusetts, and they were brought about by two notable persons,--Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.
www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/book/chap5_2.html   (3087 words)

  
 Metal Concentrations in Sediments of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay Document Environmental Change   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As documented in the "State of Boston Harbor Report 1995 " (Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), 1996: MWRA Technical Report No. 96‚6, 22 p.), beach closures are less frequent, the occurrence of disease in winter flounder is diminished, and oxygen penetration into the sediments is increasing.
This long-term monitoring of metals in sediments of Massachusetts Bay has helped define the background concentrations and the natural variability in contaminant levels.
The increase after cruise 10 is attributed to the contaminants transported to this depositional center during the unusually intense storm of December 11-16, 1992.
marine.usgs.gov /fact-sheets/fs150-97   (986 words)

  
 Massachusetts Bay Colony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Massachusetts Town History Page shows what towns split up and joined together over the years, and are also grouped by county, so you can get the county.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was dominated from the beginning by the followers of the Puritan ideals and members of the church.
A list of Massachusetts church records and the correlating LDS film numbers are at the Massachusetts Congregational Churches.
members.aol.com /ntgen/hrtg/mass.html   (2579 words)

  
 Boston Harbor/ Massachusetts Bay Studies
BOSTON SEWAGE OUTFALL: THE FATE OF SEDIMENTS AND CONTAMINANTS IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY
The overall objective is to develop a capability to predict the fate of contaminants associated with fine-grained sediments on a regional basis.
Since 1989, monitoring oceanographic parameters and sediment chemistry by the USGS near the Massachusetts Bay outfall has identified storms as a major process for redistributing sediments and associated contaminants.
crusty.er.usgs.gov /mbay/mbay.html   (488 words)

  
 Definition of Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company, for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts.
Their first meeting in America was held October of 1630, but was attended by only eight freemen.
By 1641, they had added the first code of laws (the Massachusetts Body of Liberties), that specified required behavior and punishments.
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 tell me more about when Massachusetts Bay Colony held a day of fasting in? - Ask.com Web Search
She was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life there.
A recent small pox outbreak, the revocation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter by Charles II...
bleak for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston.
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 SparkNotes: John Winthrop: Important Terms, People, and Events
Antinomianism - · A belief in Massachusetts Bay supported by Anne Hutchinson, which held that when God intervened to save someone that person became possessed by the Holy Spirit and therefore ceased to operate of his or her own free will.
General Court - · The governing body of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was composed of the governor, deputy governor, and eight assistants.
His wife was the highest born Puritan to emigrate in Winthrop's party, and the emigrant's flagship was named for her.
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 The Massachusetts Bay Company and Its Predecessors : Genealogical Publishing Company
While it is well known that the Massachusetts Bay Company, under the leadership of John Winthrop, ultimately settled Massachusetts Bay in 1630, it is less well understood that the Massachusetts Bay Company's claim on New England was preceded by those of two other joint stock companies.
The company's claim was transferred to a new organization, the New England Company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay (better known as the New England Company), led by John Endecott.
Of great interest to genealogists are the sketches of 125 Adventurers (investors) in Massachusetts Bay, a number of whom did not emigrate to the New World, but some of whom were related to those who did.
www.genealogical.com /item_detail.asp?ID=9724&AFID=1308   (394 words)

  
 Massachusetts Bay Colony
C.F. Jewett's book, republished on CD-ROM, includes a general history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Essex County, and of each town in the county as of the original publication in 1878.
Descendants of Roger Eastman (b.1610); immigrated to the USA from ENG in 1638 on the Confidence, arriving at Massachusetts Bay Colony.
After Massachusetts, it was the second colony to establish and sustain a printing press.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Massachusetts_Bay_Colony   (2968 words)

  
 BCD 03-66
This is the determination of the Railroad Retirement Board concerning the status of Connex Railroad, LLC, as an employer under the Railroad Retirement Act (45 U.S.C. § 231 et seq.) and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. § 351 et seq.).
Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company was selected by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to operate the Authority’s commuter rail system in the Boston area.
The Board held Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company to be an employer under the Acts as of January 10, 2003 (B.C.D. Nos.
www.rrb.gov /blaw/bcd/bcd03-66.htm   (440 words)

  
 HPH NOW, September 3, 2004, Shine Combines Public Health and Public Service on Massachusetts Bay Advisory Panel
The MWRA’s whale surveys may not be scientifically rigorous–or a strong indicator of the bay’s health–but HSPH Assistant Professor James Shine knows the sightings are necessary because people care about whales.
For example, the MWRA initially was required to develop a complex computerized model that could predict how changes to the food chain in Massachusetts Bay would affect whales in the area.
After reviewing 10 years of data on Massachusetts Bay, the panel has concluded that some of the monitoring stations set up by the MWRA are redundant and could be dropped from the program.
www.hsph.harvard.edu /now/sep3/index.html   (1167 words)

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