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Map depicting tribal distribution in southern New England, c. 1600; the political boundaries shown are modern Before the arrival of European colonists on the eastern shore of New England, the area around Massachusetts Bay was the territory of several Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Massachusetts, Nausets, and Wampanoags.
The Deane Winthrop House is an historic house at 34 Shirley Street in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Deane Winthrop (1623–1704) was the sixth son of the second colonial governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop. The oldest part of the house was built about 1675 with an addition made in 1696.
Robert Seeley, also Seely, Seelye, or Ciely, (1602–1668) was an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who helped establish Watertown, Wethersfield, and New Haven. He also served as second-in-command to John Mason in the Pequot War .
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...
This house is now operated as a museum by the town. John Capen House N/A Milton [b] 1675 This house was originally built in Dorchester by John Capen in 1675. [92] As built, the structure consisted of an end chimney bay and a range of two side by side rooms. An additional room and chamber was added to the right of the chimney in the mid ...
Buckman Tavern, Lexington, Massachusetts, ca. 1895-1905. Archive of Photographic Documentation of Early Massachusetts Architecture, Boston Public Library. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. [2] [8]
The province was incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s, beginning with the formation of York County, Massachusetts, which extended from the Piscataqua River to just east of the mouth of the Presumpscot River in Casco Bay. Eventually, its territory grew to encompass nearly all of present-day Maine.
Colonial settlement of the shores of Massachusetts Bay began in 1620 with the founding of the Plymouth Colony. [4] Other attempts at colonization took place throughout the 1620s, but expansion of English settlements only began on a large scale with the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 and the arrival of the first large group of Puritan settlers in 1630. [5]