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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.
July 17, 1700 William Stoughton (acting) July 22, 1700 died July 7, 1701 Governor's Council (acting) July 10, 1701 June 11, 1702 Vacant Joseph Dudley: June 11, 1702 February 4, 1715 Thomas Povey (June 11, 1702 – left colony c. January 28, 1706) Vacant William Tailer (October 4, 1711 – February 4, 1715) Governor's Council (acting) February 4 ...
Map of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies. Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts in 1636 with 100 followers and founded a settlement just north of the Dutch Fort Hoop which grew into Connecticut Colony. The community was first named Newtown then renamed Hartford to honor the English town of Hertford. One of the reasons why Hooker left ...
Office of Vice-Admiral of the Coast: being some account of that ancient office. Gale Ecco, Making Of Mode. ISBN 978-1240154067. Baugh, Daniel A. (2015). British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400874637. Blomfield, R. Massie (1912). "Naval Executive Ranks". The Mariner's Mirror. 2 (4): 106– 112.
In 1321 Sir John de Beauchamp was also appointed Admiral of the South, North and West, effectively the English Navy's first Admiral of the Fleet. [32] The first Admiral to be granted a patent by the monarch was Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel as High Admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine given by King Richard II in 1385. [33]
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 rearranged the political map of Europe and led to a series of wars with France that lasted well over a century. This was the classic age of sail; while the ships themselves evolved in only minor ways, technique and tactics were honed to a high degree, and the battles of the Napoleonic Wars entailed feats that would have been impossible for the fleets of the 17th ...
As a compromise, the area west of Congamond Lake remained in Massachusetts, and the area of Massachusetts east of the lake joined Suffield and became part of Connecticut. [119] [118] In 1791, and 1793, commissioners were sent from both states to survey the boundary line yet again, but were unable to agree until a compromise was reached in 1803 ...
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.