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  2. History of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    The Bay Colony was founded under a royal charter, unlike Plymouth Colony. ... Massachusetts, founded in 1761. [26] The educational system, headed by Harvard College ...

  3. Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    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. [258] Massachusetts's per-student public expenditure for elementary and secondary schools was eighth in the nation in 2012, at $14,844. [259]

  4. John Winthrop - Wikipedia

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    Hutchinson and others founded the settlement of Portsmouth on Rhode Island; Wheelwright founded first Exeter, New Hampshire and then Wells, Maine in order to be free of Massachusetts rule.) [87] [88] Winthrop was active in arguing against their supporters, but Shepard criticized him for being too moderate, claiming that Winthrop should "make ...

  5. Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of colonial governors of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    5 Massachusetts Bay Colony: 1629–1686, 1689–1692. 6 Dominion of New England: 1686–1689. ... The Popham Colony was founded on the coast of Phippsburg, ...

  7. 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.

  8. Thomas Dudley - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Dudley (12 October 1576 – 31 July 1653) was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home.

  9. Province of Massachusetts Bay - Wikipedia

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    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.