Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution on February 6, 1788, according to the Census Bureau. Originally, Maine was ...

One of the primary players in Salem’s early settlement and in the 1630 founding of Boston, Charlestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was not a person at all, but a finely framed galleon-like ...

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Ten years after the Pilgrims first settled near Plymouth Rock, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was officially founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by Gov. John Winthrop.

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 state in 1788. However, the oldest town in ...

The Plymouth Bay Colony would, after 70 years, become a part of the greater Massachusetts Bay Colony ... Cambridge was first settled in 1630, and became a town in 1636. It would later be ...

As one of the 13 original colonies, Massachusetts is filled with rich history. Massachusetts officially became a state in 1788, but its foundations and revolutionary history extend back much further.