Title: The Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Headings: The Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Fast Facts: Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop and the "Winthrop Fleet"
Settling Boston
Unrest and Exile: The Antinomian Crisis
Christianizing Indigenous Peoples
The American Revolution
Sources and Further Reading

Content: While the company was intended to transfer the wealth of the New World to stockholders in England, the settlers themselves transferred the charter to Massachusetts. By so doing, they turned a commercial venture into a political one. Fast Facts: Massachusetts Bay Colony
Also Known As: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Named After: Massachuset tribe
Founding Year: 1630
Founding Country: England, Netherlands
First Known European Settlement: 1620
Residential Indigenous Communities: Massachuset, Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, Pequot, Wampanoag (all Algonkin)
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