Title: why and how was the Massachusetts bay colony formed? | Yahoo Answers
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Content: Settling Gloucester, Massachusetts, the group left after 3 years. This group, the Dorchester Company, was followed by the New England Company in 1628 and was superseded by the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1630. The Massachusetts Bay Colony offered the promise of a new start. Many disillusioned Englishmen, weary from religious persecution from the English Church, looked for freedom to practice their new Puritanism away from the king. They sought economic stability in a land prosperous with trading and farming opportunities, and they looked forward to the abundance of natural resources to allow their success in this new land. The Massachusetts Bay Colony lasted its first year and remained one of the important 17th-century colonies of early America. It continued to prosper into the later century, later branching out and combining with important colonies in Boston and the surrounding areas. The colony spawned such names as John Winthrop, its first governor; Roger Williams, an important early minister; and Anne Hutchinson, an important Puritan and early feminist.