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The company dispatched John Endecott and a small company of settlers to Massachusetts Bay not long after acquiring the grant. [21] In 1629, the company received a royal charter as a means to guarantee its grant against other claims, and elected Endecott as the first colonial governor, while Cradock continued to govern the company in London. [22]
The defunct John Hancock University was named for him, [217] as was the John Hancock Financial company, founded in Boston in 1862; it had no connection to Hancock's own business ventures. [218] The financial company passed on the name to the John Hancock Tower in Boston, the John Hancock Center in Chicago, as well as the John Hancock Student ...
The election took place against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War, in which Hancock briefly participated as a major general of the Massachusetts militia. Hancock became the first governor elected under the Constitution of Massachusetts, ratified only the previous June; prior to the election, the Massachusetts Governor's Council ...
With the adoption of the Constitution of Massachusetts in 1780 the role of an elected civilian governor was restored. John Hancock was elected as the first governor of the independent commonwealth on October 25, 1780. [12]
The Massachusetts Provincial Congress (1774–1780) was a provisional government created in the Province of Massachusetts Bay early in the American Revolution.Based on the terms of the colonial charter, it exercised de facto control over the rebellious portions of the province, and after the British withdrawal from Boston in March 1776, the entire province.
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. The settlers were to be ...
The Bank of Massachusetts predates the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. The Bank of Massachusetts was one of the first American banks established after the Revolutionary War, and its ...
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.