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: 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. Taking the charter with them to America would remove much of the king’s power to interfere in their affairs. The company could erect a self-governing religious commonwealth. It would allow the leaders to create the kind of society they wanted, a ‘City of God in the wilderness.’” In April of 1630, the Puritans, led by one of the company’s stockholders, John Winthrop, left their homes in Boston, England and gathered at a dock in Southampton to set sail for the New World. Massachusetts Bay Colony History: