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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.
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]
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
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.
Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Protestant Separatists initially known as the Brownist ... Date Pop. December 1620 : 99: April 1621 : 50: ... Massachusetts ...
Founded by Thomas Weston in 1622, 2nd oldest European settlement in Massachusetts. Incorporated as Weymouth in 1635 by settlers from the Dorset, England town of the same name. West Cambridge
Created by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1779, the document was primarily authored by American founding father and future president John Adams. Following its approval by convention delegates, it was approved by voters on June 15, 1780, and became effective October 25 of that year.
Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts on March 4. 1635 – Boston Latin School founded. [3] 1636 – Town assumes the prerogatives of appointment and control of the Boston Watch. 1637 – Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts founded. 1638 Desiré slave ship arrives. [4] Anne Hutchinson excommunicated.