Colony of bay of Massachusetts

The colony of bay of Massachusetts (in English Massachusetts Bay Colony ) is an old English colonial establishment, located on the coast Eastern of North America and founded at the 17th century. It is in the area of the New England around the current cities of Salem and Boston.

History

The XVIIe century, the king of England grants grounds the Company virginienne of Plymouth ( Virginia Company off Plymouth ) between the 38e parallel north and the 45e, according to the charter of Virginia of 1606. A first colony, the Popham colony, is installed with the mouth of the Kennebec River in the current state of the Maine; but it is abandoned since 1608. Other territories are granted to the south of the 41e parallel with the company of London ( Virginia Company off London ). The December 21st 1620, on the Mayflower , the Pilgrim Fathers , 102 Puritain S English unload in America (New England), in Cape Cod and found the colony of Plymouth, first city of the Massachusetts, out of the concession granted by the king (1622). These Pilgrim' S fathers (35 in all) had to flee Nottingham (1608), to be established with Leyde in the United Provinces. They sign an agreement, the Compact one of Mayflower, which is at the base of a democracy calvinienne. Salem is founded in 1626 by a company of fishermen leads by Roger Conant, then supplanted by the governor dispatched by the Massachusetts Bay Company, John Endicott. In 1790, Salem was the sixth city of the country and played an important role in the trade sino-American. It was mainly devastated by a fire in 1914.

The reverend William Blaxton (or William Blackstone ) unloads in North America in 1629 with the first English colonists. In 1630, John Winthrop leaves Salem to install a group of puritan; the city is founded the same year and Boston takes again the name of a city of the Lincolnshire, in the North-East of England, in which its founders are originating. It is equipped with an official statute and creates representative institutions. It essaime in all the colony of bay of Massachusetts, from which it constitutes the chief town.

See too

  • Colonial history of the United States

  • Thirteen colonies

Simple: Massachusetts Bay Colony

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