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	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 independence of the colony was largely due to the internal strife and frequent changes of government in England, which left little time and opportunity to deal with matters beyond the sea.
	www.usahistory.info /New-England/Massachusetts.html (3109 words)

	Massachussetts Bay Colony
		Founded 1620, the chartered colony along the north of the Eastern Seaboard[?] of the North American continent, granted by James I of England to the Pilgrim Fathers.
		The first governing document of the colony was the Mayflower Compact, drafted and ratified by the first group of colonists aboard their ship, the Mayflower, as it lay off-shore.
		The first settlement of the colony was New Plimouth[?], later Plymouth, MA.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Massachussetts_Bay_Colony.html (107 words)

	Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The New England Company received a 1620 charter from King James I for all the lands in America between 40Â° North and 48Â° N, "throughout the Maine Land from Sea to Sea." This was a reorganization of the Plymouth Company granted as part of the Virginia Charter in 1606.
		The Massachusetts Bay Company replaced both of these when the Puritans were able to convert the patents into a royal charter on March 4, 1629.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massachussetts_Bay_Colony (858 words)

	Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bay Colony in the 1630's to become the first governor and to led a religious experiment.
		New England Confederation - New England Confederation was a Union of four colonies consisting of the two Massachusetts colonies (The Bay colony and Plymouth colony) and the two Connecticut colonies ( New Haven and scattered valley settlements) in 1643.
		It was the firdst constitution in the colonies and was a beginning for the other states' charters and constitutions.
	www.course-notes.org /Vocab/chpt3.htm (1235 words)

	History 101: Week 2 (Professor Messer-Kruse)
		Chesapeake colonies developed along similar lines in spite of the different intentions and plans of their founders.
		Barbadoes was by 1670 the wealthiest, most populous, most highly developed colony of all and its concentration of wealth continued unabated throughout the century.
		Throughout the colonial period the Caribbean was the most important area of commerce for S. Carolina and the society there moved in synch with that of its W. Indian English neighbors.
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	Massachussetts Bay Colony - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Founded 1620, the chartered colony along the north of the Eastern Seaboard[?] of the North American continent, granted by James I of England to the Pilgrim Fathers.
		The first governing document of the colony was the Mayflower Compact, drafted and ratified by the first group of colonists aboard their ship, the Mayflower, as it lay off-shore.
		The first settlement of the colony was New Plimouth[?], later Plymouth, MA.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/ma/Massachussetts_Bay_Colony.html (87 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Massachusetts Bay Colony in the modern Boston area eventually came to dominate the economy, politics, legal system, and educational system of the Massachusetts Commonwealth.
		In 1636, by general vote of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Puritans established what was then termed “the School of the Prophets.” This divinity school, which grew into Harvard College and then Harvard University, was meant to superintend the lives of the colonists and prevent any further deviations from proper doctrine.
		In 1647, the Colony enacted another law called the “Old Deluder Satan Act,” so-called because the statue was supposed to protect children from the satanic influences of their neglectful, ignorant parents.
	www.quaqua.org /pilgrim.htm (3661 words)

	Massachusetts Bay Colony
		A land grant was received from the Council of New England, the successor to the ineffective Virginia Company of Plymouth, providing rights to the area between the Charles and Merrimack rivers and westward to the Pacific Ocean.
		Preliminary voyages were made in 1628 and 1629, and resulted in the establishment of a small colony on Cape Ann and later at Salem.
		The Massachusetts Bay Company and the colony were one and the same until 1684, when the charter was taken away.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h572.html (980 words)

	Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikinfo
		The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the direct predecessor of the colony and then the state of Massachusetts.
		While this remained the official name of the colony until after the American Revolution, its history is usually considered to be the same as Massachusetts from 1691 when its new charter absorbed the Plymouth Colony.
		The Massachusetts Bay Company replaced both of these when the Puritans were able to convert the patents into a Royal Charter on March 4, 1629.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Massachusetts_Bay_Colony (2728 words)

	Massachussetts newspaper Springfield ~ Worcester: newspaper Massachusets Attleboro - Boston Massachusett newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The islands of Martha\'s Vineyard and Nantucket lie to the south of Cape Cod.
		Massachusetts is known as the Bay State because of the several large bays that give its coastline its distinctive shape: Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay on the state\'s east coast, and Buzzards Bay to the south.
		Most of the population of the Boston metropolitan area (approximately 5,800,000) does not live in the city; eastern Massachusetts on the whole is fairly densely populated and largely suburban.
	www.salihli.org /books/massachusetts-newspaper.htm (300 words)

	Chapter 3
		Roger Williams - He was banished from the Massachussetts Bay Colony for challenging Puritan ideas.
		New England Confederation - New England Confederation was a Union of four colonies consisting of the two Massachusetts colonies (The Bay colony and Plymouth colony) and the two Connecticut colonies (New Haven and scattered valley settlements) in 1643.
		Massachusetts Bay Colony - One of the first settlements in New England; established in 1630 and became a major Puritan colony.
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	Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings
		This event sparked nationalistic goals in exploration which were not thought possible with the commanding influence of the Spanish who may have crushed their chances of building new colonies.
		Everyone in the colonies loved to hear him preach of love and forgiveness because he had a different style of preaching.
		It advocated a union of the British colonies for their security and defense against French Held by the British Board of Trade to help cement the loyalty of the Iroquois League.
	www.nashua.edu /gilfoylet/AP/IDS-%20comprehensive.htm (3811 words)

	Chapter
		He was banished from the Massachussetts Bay Colony for challenging Puritan ideas.
		colonial period; term used to describe indentured servants who had finished their terms of indenture and could live freely on their own land.
		New England Confederation was a Union of four colonies consisting of the two Massachusetts colonies (The Bay colony and Plymouth colony) and the two Connecticut colonies (New Haven and scattered valley settlements) in 1643.
	www.watauga.k12.nc.us /whs/departments/social_studies/id/chpt3.htm (1127 words)

	Bracey migrations to America
		However, after these initial colonization experiments, there were four great migration groups of British colonists to North America between 1629, when the first Puritans arrived in the Massachussetts Bay Colony, and 1775, when the onset of the American Revolution began.
		During this 34-year-period, the society of the Chesapeake Bay area (Maryland and Virginia) was formed, reflecting the origins before 1650 of the people from a 60-mile radius of London (but excluding the East Anglia area).
		Finally, the fourth group to arrive in the colonies were the British and Scottish borderers between 1717 and 1775, ie.
	freepages.family.rootsweb.com /~eddunn/bracey/migrations.htm (966 words)

	Massachusetts Bay Company — Infoplease.com
		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.
		The company and the colony were synonymous until 1684, when the charter was withdrawn, and the company ceased to exist.
		Bay state bounty: food is a big part of the Plimoth Plantation experience, whether it's watching colonial meals being prepared and......
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	New England: About Character Approval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Massachusetts Bay Colony has always been held by 'ordinary' folk - there were no substantial land grants of any kind to nobility, and only minor ones to such folk as governors and other appointed officials.
		While younger sons might spend time in the colonies as an aide to a member of colonial government (such as a governor or other official), or might spend time there if they were in the army, almost no members of the nobility spent any time on any land they did control in the Colonies.
		Titled nobles spent very little time in the colonies at all, and would not be appropriate as player characters, even were such landholdings in existence in the Massachussetts Bay Colony.
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	Massachusetts Bay Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ten years later, the Massachussetts Bay Company, a joint stock company, acquired a charter from King Charles of England.
		The colony of Plymouth was eventually absorbed by Massachussetts Bay, but it did remain separate until 1691.
		A large group of Puritans migrated to the new colony of Massachussetts Bay.
	www.militaryuniversity.org /Detailed/24.html (310 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Massachusetts
		Massachusetts, the voyages of the Cabots, the temporary settlement (1602) of the Gosnold party on one of the Elizabeth Islands of Buzzard's Bay, and the explorations and the mapping of the New England coast by Captain John Smith are usually passed over as more or less conjectural.
		Massachusetts, Plymouth, Maine, Nova Scotia, and the intervening territory, entitled "The Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England"; nevertheless it was not until the Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713, that the proceedings on the part of the home Government, to assert the Crown's rights, abated notably.
		In all the various anti-Catholic uprisings, from colonial times to the present, there is not one instance where the Catholics were the aggressors by word or deed: their patience and forbearance have always been in marked contrast to the conduct of their non-Catholic contemporaries.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10024c.htm (5013 words)

	Massachusetts Bay Colony
		In 1628 a group of Puritans, led by John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley, persuaded King James to grant them an area of land between the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River in North America.
		He chose Boston as the the capital and the seat of the General Court and the legislature.
		In 1628 we procured a patent from His Majesty for our planting between the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River on the south and the river of Merrimac on the north and three miles on either side of those rivers and bay.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USABmapM.htm (1277 words)

	Main Index to The Coles Surname Database
		Robert came from England in the fleet with Govenor Winthrop in 1630 to either Ipswich or Roxbury (Massachussetts Bay Colony), and October of that yr requsted to be a Freemanof Roxbury.
		These fines were remitted possibly with the understanding that he was to leave the colony.
		In the formal complaint of the Indians to the Plymouth colony in September 1652, the seventh article is as follows:
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /coles/surnames.htm (1183 words)

	Massachusetts Bay Colony
		Virtually all growth of the colony after 1640 was by natural reproduction, which is why once you've found yourself a descendant of a pre-Revolution New Englander, you very likely have a bunch of immigrant ancestors.
		The Massachusetts Bay Colony was dominated from the beginning by the followers of the Puritan ideals and members of the church.
		The church of the New England colonies was generally congregational in organization, each churchgroup being virtually independent, finding its own pastor, and accepting as members only thosewho had been well scrutinized by the membership, and approved by their vote.
	members.aol.com /ntgen/hrtg/mass.html (2579 words)

	Re: relatives of person who discovered Cushing's Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was the youngest of ten children of Betsey Maria Williams and Henry Kirke Cushing, M.D. He was born on the Western Reserve of Connecticut in the town of Cleveland, Ohio on 8 April 1869.
		His forebear, Matthew Cusing, who settled in Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, came to this country on the ship Diligent, sailing from Gravesend on 26 April and arriving at Boston on 10 August 1638.
		His fifth son, Peter, a centenarian of Hingham (Norfolk) was the father of Matthew who came to America in August 1638 and in the same year settled at Hingham in the Massachussetts Bay Colony.
	genforum.com /cushing/messages/24.html (358 words)

	Revolutionary War Class Project
		Then make a 2 tab Question & Answer book to compare /contrast life of the pilgrams in the Plymouth Colony with the Puritans in the Massachussetts Bay Colony.
		I think we'll make a similar book comparing the first 2 permanent colonies at Jamestown & Plymouth with notes about their beliefs, skills, challenges.
		Then I think we'll add a section to address the fact that there were 2+million Native Americans of diverse cultures who existed here before all of this.
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	Beliefnet.com
		Though the pilgrim's Plymouth Colony was ultimately a failure and was swallowed up by the Massachussetts Bay Colony.
		As for the Western Hemisphere without the English, that would be a tough guess as neither the Spanish nor the French were that good at building up large populations of their nationals in their colonies.
		I remember reading that in the Mid 18th Century the population of Massachussetts alone was greater than that of the entire French North American Empire from Quebec to Louisiana.
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	Lecture Notes
		Which sociopolitical setup in the colonies was the most influential on American history?
		Did the English colonies succeed in dominating other European nations' efforts because the English were superior?
		AP students: be sure to read Varying Viewpoints on pp 102-103 "Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?"
	ns.headroyce.org /~kbradley/ushistory/termsunit1.html (500 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial North America
		Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606 [At American Revolution]
		Condemnation of the Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683 [At American Revolution]
		Massachusetts Body of Liberties: The Body of Liberties, 1-49, and The Body of Liberties, 50-98, 1641 [At Hanover College]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook07.html (440 words)

	Main Index to The Weeks(es) Surname database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams, that the location was within the bounds of Plymouth Colony, and kindly suggested that if he would remove to the other side of the river, it might avoid trouble between the colonies of Plymouth and Massachussetts.
		Even before the act of banishment he, foreseeing trouble with Massachussetts Bay Colony, went among the Indians and negotiated with them concerning a possible settlement in their lands at Narragansett Bay.
		His plans were to be suddenly changed, for instead of leading his followers to Narragansett Bay in warm weather, he was obliged to leave Salem in winter to esape Underhill's expedition which was to seize him and send him to England.
	longislandgenealogy.com /weeks/surnames.htm (5506 words)

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