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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.
Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions (1996) Gutman, Herbert. The New England Working Class and the New Labor History (1987) Handlin, Oscar and Mary Flug Handlin. Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774–1861 (1947), influential study online
One of the reasons why Hooker left Massachusetts Bay was that only members of the church could vote and participate in the government, which he believed should include any adult male owning property. He obtained a royal charter and established Fundamental Orders , considered to be one of the first constitutions in America.
They spent July and August in Plymouth before moving north to settle in Weymouth, Massachusetts, at a settlement which they named Wessagussett. [25] The settlement of Wessagussett was short-lived, but it provided the spark for an event that dramatically changed the political landscape between the local tribes and the settlers.
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]
New England is the oldest clearly defined region of the United States, being settled more than 150 years before the American Revolution.The first colony in New England was Plymouth Colony, established in 1620 by the Puritan Pilgrims who were fleeing religious persecution in England.
Recent polling by GBH, CommonWealth Beacon and MassINC found that Massachusetts residents were most likely to rank immigration and migration “the single biggest issue facing state government ...
Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage feared a confrontation with the colonists; he requested reinforcements from Britain, but the British government was not willing to pay for the expense of stationing tens of thousands of soldiers in the Thirteen Colonies. Gage was instead ordered to seize Patriot arsenals.