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  2. 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.

  3. Category:History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 28 January 2024, at 15:14 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 .

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, the colony ignored the English demands to cease operations until at least 1682, when Hull's contract as mintmaster expired, and the colony did not move to renew his contract or appoint a new mintmaster. [153] The coinage was a contributing factor to the revocation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter in 1684. [154]

  8. 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.

  9. New England Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Proprietary colony: Merged into the Massachusetts Bay Colony, then into the Dominion of New England in 1686, and absorbed by the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1692 -Popham: Fort St. George: 1607-1608: Proprietary colony: Abandoned -Sagadahock-1608/9-1691: Proprietary colony: Incorporated in Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691 -Wessagusset ...