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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.
A Map of New England. A Map of New England, officially entitled A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact: Yet doth it sufficiently show the situation of the country & conveniently well the distances of places, is an early regional map of New England, published ...
The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually became five of the ...
Designed by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears and opened in 1872, this facility was the first public hospital run by women doctors in New England. The organization is now known as the Dimock Center. 36: Old City Hall (Boston) Old City Hall (Boston)
The Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: The Pilgrim Press. ISBN 978-0-788428951. Bacon, Edwin M. (1886). Boston Illustrated. Cole, William I. (April 1898). "Boston's Pauper Institutions". The New England Magazine. 24 (2). Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay with Map of Adjacent Country. E ...
Daily life in colonial New England (Bloomsbury, 2017) online. Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (1998) Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636–1736 (1985), new social history online; Perlmann, Joel, Silvana R. Siddali, and Keith ...
Province House, Boston Area of Province House in Boston; detail of 1743 map. The Province House (1679–1864) was a mansion on old Marlborough Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1679, it was the home of merchant Peter Sergeant, and after 1716, the official residence of royal governors of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Known for its ...
The Plymouth Council for New England gave Robert Gorges a patent for a settlement covering 300 square miles (780 km 2) northeast of Boston Harbor. He was an English captain and son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. [33] This settlement was intended to be a spiritual and civic capital of the council's New England colonies. [30]