When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630 ... they destroyed Boston Light with explosives. More MA history: The oldest town in MA is older than the country.
In the 1630s, proprietors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to settle the Northampton area, spreading into the land that ...
Massachusetts is filled with rich history. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by John Winthrop, and Massachusetts officially became a ...
Two hundred fifty years ago this month, on Feb. 9, 1775, the British Parliament declared the Massachusetts Bay Colony to be ...
according to the History of Massachusetts Blog. Others pinpoint 1637 as the true origin of Thanksgiving, since the Massachusetts Bay Colony's governor, John Winthrop, declared a day to celebrate ...
The notion of the “alienated teenager,” causing trouble for trouble’s sake was somewhat novel when Dean and Wood appeared on the screen. Until the 1940s, there was no special focus on young people ...
In 1690, the first paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to finance a military expedition to Canada.
The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...
Raylene Hinz-Penner here, a Liberal, Kansas native, retired English professor now living in Newton, with a glimpse into Wordy Shipmates, an edgy pop-history novel about the characters and culture of ...