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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Background
Winthrop Fleet
Colony Founding
Religious Life
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Indian Relations
King Philip's War - 1675
Provincial Government
Salem Witch Trials - 1692
Colonists from England
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Content: The Hopewell; The Jewel; The Mayflower; The Success; The Talbot ; The Trial; The Whale; The William & Francis
For an incomplete list of these immigrants (work in progress) see Immigrant Ships To America/First Families/Winthrop Fleet . More immigrants followed afterwards to the tune of 2000 per year, mostly Puritans escaping religious persecution in England. Colony Founding
Most early New England settlements were founded near where rivers reached the sea because of dependence on England for supplies and also river basins had the best farmland.