Title: History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Headings: History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
What Type of Colony was the Massachusetts Bay?
Who Founded Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Who Settled Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Massachusetts Bay Colony Government and Religion:
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Content: This meant that the administration of the colony was elected by the colonists and the colony was allowed to self-govern, as long as its laws aligned with those of England. Who Founded Massachusetts Bay Colony? Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Massachusetts Bay Company during the Great Puritan Migration. The Massachusetts Bay Company, which was strongly Puritan, had been conducting business in the New World for a few years as the New England Company. The company then renamed itself the Massachusetts Bay Company, after the tribe of Massachusetts Indians that lived in New England, and the company was granted a charter by Charles I, on March 4, 1629, to officially engage in trade in New England. Who Settled Massachusetts Bay Colony? When the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter was issued, it neglected to say that the company members had to stay in England to conduct their meetings. In August of 1629, the company held a series of meetings in Cambridge where they voted to take advantage of this omission and move the entire company to New England, according to the book The Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: “The men reasoned that if they company continued to meet in England, the king could find things to quarrel about and could possibly take back the charter. This had happened to the Virginia Company of London.