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Content: Massachusetts Bay Colony was formed in 1630 by John Winthrop as
a safe haven for English Puritan families. Eventually Massachusetts
Bay Colony and Plymouth colony joined to become Massachusetts. What was the original name of Massachusetts? I am not sure...but think it was the Bay Colony. What was the major reason the Massachusetts colony began name the group of people who started the Massachusetts colony and name of the document they signed what was the effect of the document signed? The Massachusetts Bay colony was established by the
Massachusetts Bay Company. The Cambridge Agreement was signed in
order to buy out some investors. Was Massachusetts bay a successful colony? Massachusetts was not a successful colony
Chesapeake and Massachusetts bay? The Chesapeake Bay is larger and better protected and Maryland
deserves to be called the bay state but Massachusetts got the name
on the books first as the Massachusetts Bay Colony so the name
stuck.