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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 (2,660 words) - 04:04, 3 May 2024
- 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
- 20,000 settlers had arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony alone, and by 1678 ... and the English Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony maintained an increasingly ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 20:39, 9 April 2023
- guns could have serious ramifications for his colony. He is generally ... independence was inevitable. In March his colony, preceded only by New Hampshire ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- The state is named after the Delaware Bay and River, which were named ... to the east by the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, New Jersey and the Atlantic ...25 KB (3,617 words) - 09:17, 28 January 2024
- The strongest tidal ranges occur at Penzhina Bay (36 to 43 feet [11 ... * The Shantar Islands are a group of fifteen islands that lie in Uda ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- and largest city in the state of Massachusetts and the largest city ... With many colleges and universities such as Harvard and Massachusetts ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- visited her followers in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. She ... In New York, the communal property at Sodus Bay was sold in 1828 and the community ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born. Cheever ... the director of the Yaddo artist's colony in Saratoga Springs, New ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son ... The newly married couple bought a small home in Brookline, Massachusetts ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- and eventually established a short-lived colony in what he called Vinland ... as Minnesota, either coming down from Hudson Bay or going west through the ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 19:05, 25 October 2022
- a naval battle for control of Chesapeake Bay leading to the surrender of ... as a "standing army"). Each colony had traditionally provided ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- France (including the North American colony of New France and the French ... Fred Anderson in A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers & Society ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- and a permanent cyclonic gyre in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico, a major ... are situated in the western gulf and in the Bay of Campeche. Another important ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- and large bald cypress near Chesapeake Bay, to gently rolling hills of ... originally part of Maryland. The Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state, ...45 KB (6,596 words) - 08:44, 10 March 2023
- Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Massachusetts, seems to have been a ... was ordained minister at Northampton, Massachusetts and assistant to his ...24 KB (3,948 words) - 00:21, 4 August 2022
- Jamestown, Virginia. However, the Popham Colony did not survive the harsh ... boundaries, became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1652. Maine was ...36 KB (5,276 words) - 05:31, 5 November 2022
- 4, 1826) was a revolutionary patriot, Massachusetts delegate to the First ... St David, Somerset, England, to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1636. His ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns ... that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. The ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- father when he was five, he moved to the colony of New York. He appears to ... orders from the province of New York, Massachusetts, he captured an enemy ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- William Pynchon, emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with the Winthrop ... Pynchon attended Oyster Bay High School, where he was awarded "student ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- In the Massachusetts Bay colony, Friends were banished on pain of death - some (most famously Mary Dyer) were hanged on Boston Common for returning ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- 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
- "Viking culture," "Viking colony," etc., generally referring ... day Canada, Maine and Southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod in ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
