• Joseph Sherman (June 25, 1650 - January 20, 1731) was born at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married on November 16, 1673, at Watertown, Elizabeth...
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    Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric poet (d. 1712) June 25 – Joseph Sherman (Massachusetts Bay Colony), American politician (d. 1731) July 1 – Maria Anna Vasa...
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    the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he played an important role in consolidating separate settlements into a single colony on the Connecticut...
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  • John Winslow (1597–1674) (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    He died between March 12, 1673/4 and May 21, 1674, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. At the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest merchants...
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    Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric poet (d. 1712) June 25 – Joseph Sherman (Massachusetts Bay Colony), American politician (d. 1731) July 1 – Maria Anna Vasa...
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    Antinomian Controversy (category 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. It pitted most of the colony's ministers and magistrates against some...
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  • The Judson family, including the teen-aged Joseph Judson, settled in Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in about 1634. Five years later they were among...
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    as one of the first towns in the Plymouth Colony, one year behind Sandwich further south in Massachusetts on Cape Cod. It was incorporated on September...
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    in 1639; absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony by 1658 Massachusetts Bay Colony, established in 1628; merged with Plymouth Colony in 1691 Province of New...
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    Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony; the latter banned the Quakers in 1656–1657. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony annexed the Plymouth Colony in 1691...
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    from the people of the Sudbury Plantation to the General Court of the Bay Colony. On January 23, 1766, the district of Northborough was established within...
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    counties in Massachusetts that included a declaration of grievances, called for a trade boycott of British goods, and urged each colony to set up and...
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    Plymouth Colony to merge with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was seated to the north in Boston. The 1692 charter created the Province of Massachusetts. The...
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    It was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Charlestown became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on...
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    June 1638, John Winthrop the Younger, son of the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, bought most of present-day Essex County from Masconomet, chief...
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    Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony; the latter banned the Quakers in 1656–1657. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony annexed the Plymouth Colony in 1691...
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    refugee, Roger Williams, who fled religious persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to establish a haven for religious liberty. He founded Providence...
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    never learned to write. Doty died on August 23, 1655, in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. In Burial Hill Cemetery there is a memorial stone for him. His...
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    Samuel Willard (category People from Concord, Massachusetts)
    Willard began preaching in Groton, then at the very frontier of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The town's first minister, John Miller, had become ill and, when...
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    Yarmouth (/ˈjɑːrməθ/ YAR-məth) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod. The population was 25,023 at the 2020 census...
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    La Tour went to Boston to ask John Winthrop, the governor of Massachusetts Bay colony, for help. Winthrop arranged for several merchants to advance loans...
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  • (1601–1683), prominent early citizen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Cambridge Village, Massachusetts Francis P. Farquhar (1887–1974), former president...
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    Park Service. The county was created by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered "that the whole plantation...
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    Providence, Rhode Island (category Narragansett Bay)
    Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which...
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    who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality, Boston's largest neighborhood by...
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    1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Of the passengers, 37 were members of a separatist Puritan congregation...
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    Moses Hazeltine Sherman (December 3, 1853 – September 9, 1932) was an American land developer who built the Phoenix Street Railway in Phoenix, Arizona...
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  • Grandnephew of Joseph Story. William Stoughton (1631–1701), Deputy Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Chief Magistrate of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Chief Justice...
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    pre-Revolutionary era by vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Its first headmaster, Nathaniel Eaton, took office the following...
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