Search results for "Massachusetts Bay Colony" - New World Encyclopedia
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- her ancestry in America back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. His parents married later in life, when they were both in their thirties, unusual ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- and the Atlantic Ocean to the east; Massachusetts to the south; and Vermont ... north-south and ends up in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Its major tributaries ...33 KB (4,724 words) - 09:19, 11 March 2023
- of British raids on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, which included an attack ... and Hornet returned to Boston, Massachusetts by August 31. ...42 KB (6,479 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay, and is approximately 40 miles ... the founding proprietor of the Maryland Colony. Lord Baltimore himself took ...32 KB (4,493 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- in the northwest. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire ... basis of the 1629 charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Province of ...45 KB (6,488 words) - 23:23, 5 March 2023
- James, Duke of York, and became a royal colony in 1685 when James succeeded ... Island, and small islands located in Jamaica Bay. The Hudson River ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- with the United States' Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... as was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop. ...34 KB (4,989 words) - 13:06, 3 May 2023
- aspirations and reality of the young colony. Generalizations from newspapers ... In 1834, the first recorded temperance meeting was held in the Bay ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón tried to found a colony in what is now South Carolina ... of what would become Springfield, Massachusetts in a desirable farming ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- Machilipatnam in the Coromandel Coast in the Bay of Bengal. The high profits ... the Boston Tea Party in the province of Massachusetts Bay, one of the major ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- on Parkhill Road, joining a small colony of avant-garde artists who ... *Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art, Sturgeon Bay, WI ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- from the southern border of the Virginia Colony from 36 degrees north to ... The two sections remained a single colony until the British divided ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- was shut down and legislative elections in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay were suspended. ==American Revolutionary War== The American Revolutionary ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 17:01, 20 May 2024
- by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Bay of Tadjoura cuts into the ... The country, the size of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, is mainly ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- British imperial ventures, such as the Massachusetts Bay Company and the British ... in 1583 and declared it an English colony on August 5 at St. John& ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- a mother country or metropole to the new colony. The local people or tribes ... category, where the primary purpose of the colony was to engage in trade rather ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- Archimedes was born in the seaport colony of Syracuse, Magna Graecia ... describes how Archimedes held the Romans at bay with war machines of his own ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- obtain patents through petition to a given colony's legislature. In 1641 ... operation of East India and Hudson's Bay companies because of their ...72 KB (10,557 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- were punitive measures taken against the colony of Massachusetts. After fighting ... Washington assumed command of the American forces in Massachusetts ...58 KB (8,978 words) - 15:03, 21 May 2024
- each tailored to suit the particular colony, its history and demography ... wanted. Other Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay Colony, Connecticut, Boston ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
