Title: Masssachusetts Bay Colony Founded
Headings: Masssachusetts Bay Colony Founded
Masssachusetts Bay Colony Founded
Content: They were well equipped and founded the city of Boston. Winthrop, the first governor wrote: " For we must consider that we shall be like a City upon Hill; the eyes of all people are on us." Governing the Colony. The company tied its fate to that of the colony and soon moved its headquarters from England to Boston. By the early 1840s 16,000s people lived in Boston and the surrounding area. The Puritans transformed their churches so that each church would choose its own minister. They also transformed the Massachusetts Bay Company from a chartered company into a self-governing commonwealth. A general court became the highest authority in the new colony.