Search results for "Massachusetts Bay Colony" - New World Encyclopedia
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- John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- *The Massachusetts Government Act unilaterally altered the government ... of accused royal officials to another colony or even to Great Britain ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- Rhode Island, and co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island. He was also ... raised other objections to the ruling Massachusetts religious authorities ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts Bay colony. The daughter of a preacher who had been jailed several times in England for subversive ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- She was both the daughter and the wife of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governors. As an accomplished poet she laid the groundwork for other female writers ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- of the mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay region and his leadership ... Unlike the founding of the Plymouth colony by religious dissenters ...17 KB (2,676 words) - 07:51, 3 August 2022
- A charter colony is a type of colony that was established by a group ... its patent in 1635, the Providence Island colony was conquered by Spain in ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- thumb|right|An early flag of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.]] ... at present-day Plymouth. The Massachusetts Bay Colony, which would come ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- Pilgrims as military adviser for Plymouth Colony. He accompanied them on the ... By this time, the neighboring and more populous Massachusetts Bay ...41 KB (6,248 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2021
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the north, and the Bay of Fundy to the west. Its ... established the first capital for the colony Acadia at Port Royal in 1604 ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- War. In 1774 Gage became governor of Massachusetts, and attempted to extinguish ... Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was 62 years old at the time ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- The Massachusetts Bay Colony was named after the indigenous population ... ===Massachusetts Bay Colony period: 1629–1686=== The Pilgrims were ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- Robben Island (Afrikaans Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, ... unsuccessful, the island became a penal colony and eventually a place of ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious ... a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who cultivated ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut ... New England landed in present-day Massachusetts. These settlers were ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- 20,000 settlers had arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony alone, and by 1678 ... annexing Plymouth Colony to Massachusetts Bay Colony. The official date ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- who moved overland from Massachsetts Bay Colony. The immigration from ... only secessionist outposts of Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1662, Winthrop ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- overseas territory (formerly a British colony), the last remaining in the ... It is accessible only by boat through Bounty Bay. Adamstown is the capital. ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard ... came in the form of an act of the Massachusetts Bay colony's Great and ...32 KB (4,558 words) - 16:50, 30 January 2022
- after the brutal winter at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Some of the details ... The Massachusetts Bay Colony established in 1628 near present day ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
