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    The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered...
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    of the Massachusetts Charter in 1691, the role of civilian governor was restored in Massachusetts Bay. Now the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the colony...
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    however, reorganized the territory of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies into the Province of Massachusetts Bay and appointed Sir William Phips...
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    America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were...
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    established the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691 to govern a territory roughly equivalent to the modern states of Massachusetts and Maine. Its governors...
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    located in the state capital of Boston. The name "General Court" is a holdover from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when the colonial...
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    government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, until Charles II issued a colonial charter for the province and appointed John Cutt as President of New Hampshire...
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    Maine). The province was incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s, beginning with the formation of York County, Massachusetts, which...
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    The Massachusetts Charter of 1691 was a charter that formally established the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Issued by the government of William III and...
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    sailing out of New England ports. In use 1686-1775. Flown by the Province of Massachusetts Bay after the 1707 Acts of Union. The Flag of Great Britain...
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    the establishment of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature in 1692 under the charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Although it was historically...
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    New England Colonies (category Pre-statehood history of Massachusetts)
    England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth...
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  • Massachusetts was a short-lived county formed in 1674 during colonial territorial disputes between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Province of New...
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  • was a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before American independence had been part of the British province of Massachusetts Bay. Originally...
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    previously been divided between Massachusetts and New York) into the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Shortly after, the new province's first governor, William...
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    As Tinker had, other pioneers followed the Algonquian trails from Massachusetts Bay. They found the region productive for fishing and farming. The town...
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    Truro /ˈtrɜːroʊ/ is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located slightly more than...
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  • American New England Colonies Province of New Hampshire (1680–1686, 1692–1783) Province of Massachusetts Bay (1692–1776) Province of Maine (various dates) Canada...
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    Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company was an English royal charter which formally incorporated the joint-stock company for the colonization of Massachusetts...
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    Dominion of New England (1686-1689), which was succeeded in the territories of modern Massachusetts and Maine by the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The charter...
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  • The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the fundamental governing document of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 individual...
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    a variant with "Commonwealth of Massachusetts" in English is also sometimes used. The first seal of Massachusetts Bay Colony showed a nude American Indian...
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    Thomas Hutchinson (governor) (category Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature)
    colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution. He has...
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    The Massachusetts Provincial Congress (1774–1780) was a provisional government created in the Province of Massachusetts Bay early in the American Revolution...
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    May 1774. The act effectively abrogated the 1691 charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and gave its royally-appointed governor wide-ranging powers...
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    The Massachusetts attorney general is an elected constitutionally defined executive officer of the Massachusetts government. The officeholder is the chief...
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  • Massachusetts Bay can refer to Massachusetts Bay, a bay on the Gulf of Maine that forms part of the central coastline of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
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    Cotton Mather (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    the presidency of Harvard College. After 1702, Cotton Mather clashed with Joseph Dudley, the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, whom Mather...
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    Massachusetts, United States, located approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of Boston. At the time of the 2020 United States Census, the population of Weston...
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    1691 English Province of Massachusetts Bay, October 7, 1691 – May 1, 1707 Queen Anne's War, 1702–1713 Raid on Deerfield, 1704 Treaty of Utrecht, 1713...
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