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  2. Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Bay Company, like other colonial joint-stock companies, was to be a corporate entity as well as a governmental one. The first settlers of the colony were Puritans who sought to create a society based on their religious beliefs unfettered from the Royal Anglican government of the Kingdom of England .

  4. Massachusetts Charter - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Charter of 1691 was a charter that formally established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.Issued by the government of William III and Mary II, the corulers of the Kingdom of England, the charter defined the government of the colony, whose lands were drawn from those previously belonging to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and portions of the Province of New York.

  5. History of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    The Pilgrims were followed by Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Salem (1629) and Boston (1630). [8] The Puritans strongly dissented from the theology and church polity of the Church of England, and they came to Massachusetts for religious freedom. [9] The Bay Colony was founded under a royal charter, unlike Plymouth Colony.

  6. List of colonial governors of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    William III and Mary II eventually issued new charters, but in the process they combined the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and other territories into the province of Massachusetts Bay. [10] Plans to establish the dominion had started under King Charles II early in the 1680s.

  7. Thomas Wiswall - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Wiswall (1601–1683) was an early settler of British America, a prominent early citizen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a key figure in the founding of Cambridge Village, now known as the city of Newton, Massachusetts.

  8. Bible Commonwealths - Wikipedia

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    A Bible Commonwealth is a term used to describe colonies such as Massachusetts Bay and New Haven, during the majority of the early North American Colonial Period due to Christian Scripture's strong influence on policy and life.

  9. Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) - Wikipedia

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    The term "Great Migration" can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were mainly motivated by freedom to practice their beliefs.