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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.
In 1640, they voted to annex their settlement – with arguably the best position on the Connecticut River, near Enfield Falls, surrounded by fertile farmland and friendly Natives – to the faraway government in Boston, rather than the nearby government in Hartford. [115]
For instance, poll taxes made up from one-third to one-half of the tax revenue of colonial Massachusetts. Property taxes assumed a larger share of tax revenues as land values rose when population increases encouraged settlement of the American West. [5] Some western states found no need for poll tax requirements; but poll taxes and payment ...
Chapter 61 is a voluntary current use program designed by the Massachusetts Legislature to tax real property in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at its resources value rather than its highest and best use (development) value. Landowners who enroll their land in the program receive property tax reductions in exchange for a lien on their ...
These laws included the levying of "rates" or taxes and the distribution of colony lands. [3]: 7 The General Court established townships as a means of providing local government over settlements, but reserved for itself the right to control specific distribution of land to individuals within those towns. When new land was granted to a freeman ...
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades.
Newly elected Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey neither confirmed nor denied the possibility of issuing new state stimulus checks, but the subject was broached during her first leadership meeting...
Response of the Continental Congress to the Conciliatory Resolution, published in a New England newspaper in 1775. The Conciliatory Resolution was a resolution proposed by Lord North and passed by the British Parliament in February 1775, in an attempt to reach a peaceful settlement with the Thirteen Colonies about two months prior to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. [1]