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Map depicting tribal distribution in southern New England, c. 1600; the political boundaries shown are modern Before the arrival of European colonists on the eastern shore of New England, the area around Massachusetts Bay was the territory of several Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Massachusetts, Nausets, and Wampanoags.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay [1] was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered on October 7, 1691, by William III and Mary II, the joint monarchs of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was based in the merging of several earlier British colonies in New England.
Hart, Albert Bushnell ed. Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Colony, Province and State Volumes 1 and 2 (1927), to 1776; Hosmer, James Kendall ed. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630–1649; Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (1998), new social history; Labaree, Benjamin Woods.
People from colonial Massachusetts (20 C, 556 P) Plymouth Colony (6 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Colonial Massachusetts" ... A Map of New England; C.
Proprietary colony: Merged into the Massachusetts Bay Colony, then into the Dominion of New England in 1686, and absorbed by the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1692 -Popham: Fort St. George: 1607-1608: Proprietary colony: Abandoned -Sagadahock-1608/9-1691: Proprietary colony: Incorporated in Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691 -Wessagusset ...
Settlements that failed or were merged into other colonies included the failed Popham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and the Wessagusset Colony (1622–23) in Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose remnants were folded into the Plymouth Colony. The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies coexisted until 1686, each electing its own governor annually.
Of towns founded during the colonial era, Dedham is one of the few towns "that has preserved extensive records of its earliest years." [33] They have been described as "very full and perfect." [22] So detailed were the records that a map of the home lots of the first settlers can be drawn using only the descriptions in the book of grants. [175]
A woodblock print measuring 31 x 40 cm (12 x 16 in), depicted with a 1:900,000 scale, the map is the first domestically published map of New England, made 29 years after the first printing press arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638.