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Colonial Massachusetts: A History (1979), scholarly overview online; Labaree, Benjamin W. The Boston Tea Party (1964) online; Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636–1736 (1970), new social history online; Miller, John C. Sam Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda (1936) Nagl, Dominik.
A specimen Ontario short-form birth certificate. In Canada, the issuance of birth certificates is a function of the provinces and territories. In 2008, provinces and territories started rolling out new polymer certificates to new applicants. [31] [32] Canadian birth certificates may be obtained from the following:
Massachusetts is also home to the highest ranked private high school in the United States, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, which was founded in 1778. [257] Massachusetts's per-student public expenditure for elementary and secondary schools was eighth in the nation in 2012, at $14,844. [258]
1657 – Scots Charitable Society of Boston founded. 1658 – Town-House built. 1660 June 1: Mary Dyer hanged as a Quaker. Copp's Hill Burying Ground and Granary Burying Ground established. [2] 1669 – Third Church built. [2] 1679 Province House and Baptist church built. [2] Fire. [7] 1680 – Paul Revere House built (approximate date). 1688 ...
John Thorndike (February 23, 1611 or 1612 – interred 1668) was one of the first founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Other sources show his birth date as born February 1610/11. Other sources show his birth date as born February 1610/11.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company, including investors in the failed Dorchester Company, which had established a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1623. The colony began in 1628 and was the company's second attempt at colonization.
Wiswall arrived in New England on August 16, 1635 (leaving behind him brothers Adam, Abiel and Jonathan), and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts with his twin brother John, who had arrived in 1633. He was a grantee of land in 1637, subscriber to the school fund in 1641, and served as a selectman in Dorchester from 1644–1652.
The John Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 133 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.It is the saltbox home in which Founding Father and second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in 1735.