Title: History of Boston - Wikipedia
Headings: History of Boston
History of Boston
Contents
Prehistoric era
Founding
Colonial era
Disasters in the 1700s
Boston and the American Revolution, 1765–1775
19th century
Economic and population growth
Brahmin elite
Abolitionists
Irish
Great Fire of 1872
High culture
Transportation
Censorship
20th century
Early decades
Mid-century transportation and urban renewal
World War II and later
Big Dig and public transit in the 2000s
21st century
Geographic expansion
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
Older titles
External links

Content: He became the first European colonist to settle in Boston. A group of English Puritans founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620, just to the south of Massachusetts Bay. The Puritans encouraged further colonial settlement and immigration to the New World because King Charles I of England was in favor of suppressing the religious practices of Puritans in England. Eventually in 1629, the Cambridge Agreement was signed in England among some of the Puritans, established a self-governing colony, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and they decided to settle to the New World. John Winthrop was their leader; he would become governor of the settlement in the New World. In a famous sermon before the Puritans' departure, "A Model of Christian Charity," Winthrop described the new colony as "a City upon a Hill ." In June 1630, the Winthrop Fleet arrived in what would later be called Salem, which on account of lack of food, "pleased them not." They proceeded to Charlestown, just across the river from the Shawmut Peninsula; however Charlestown pleased them less, for lack of fresh water.