Wessagusset Colony (sometimes called the Weston Colony or Weymouth Colony) was a short-lived English trading colony in New England located in Weymouth...
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List of colonial governors of Massachusetts (redirect from Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
other colonies included the failed Popham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and the Wessagusset Colony (1622–23) in Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose...
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Myles Standish (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
conflict at Wessagusset Colony. During these actions, Standish exhibited skill as a soldier, but disturbed more moderate members of the colony due to his...
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received their royal charters. Weymouth (Wessagusset): 1622 as part of Plymouth Colony; part of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 Gloucester: 1623 (Dorchester...
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John Saunders (colonist) (section Wessagusset Colony)
politician, sailor, settler, and planter, who served as the Governor of Wessagusset Colony from 1622 to 1623. He came to the settlement as a member of Thomas...
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Weymouth, Massachusetts (category 1630 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
was settled in 1622 as Wessagusset Colony founded by Thomas Weston, who had been the main financial backer of Plymouth Colony. It is thought to have been...
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the first Governor of Wessagusset Colony in New England, located in modern-day Weymouth, Massachusetts. He died at Plymouth colony after having only governed...
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plot by the Massachusett to attack both Plymouth and the neighboring Wessagusset colony. This plot would be foiled before it could materialize by Myles Standish...
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established Wessagusset Colony near the Plymouth colony in Weymouth in 1622. They abandoned it in 1623, and it was replaced by another small colony led by...
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initial settlement, called Machigonne and made up of veterans of the Wessagusset Colony on Massachusetts Bay, failed. At the time, the sachem of the Almouchiquois...
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Chickatawbut (category Native Americans connected with Plymouth Colony)
although his warrior, Pecksuot, was killed in the hostilities at the Wessagusset Colony in March, 1623. Chickatawbut died of smallpox in 1633 and was succeeded...
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Massachusetts Bay Colony Narragansett Country† New Hampshire Grants New Haven Colony Plymouth Colony Saybrook Colony Wessagusset Colony† Granville District...
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Massachusetts, in 1623, building his settlement on the site of the failed Wessagusset Colony. At the time of the founding of Gorges' settlement, the English explorer...
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He was killed by Myles Standish either in 1624 in the battle at Wessagusset Colony (citation irretrievable) as immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's...
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Retrieved July 8, 2022. "Springfield, MA". www.nndb.com. "OLD COLONY HISTORY AT THE OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS". Archived from the...
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Hanover, Massachusetts (category 1649 establishments in Plymouth Colony)
According to Dwelley's History of Hanover (1849), Phineas Pratt of the Wessagusset Colony apparently spent a night crossing the Indian Head or North River in...
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in colonial New Hampshire chose to become part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1641. They were ceded to the re-formed Province of New Hampshire in 1680...
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Bowridge Hill Richard Greene (colonist) (died 1622), first Governor of Wessagusset Colony in New England Richard Greene (antiquary) (1716–1793), English antiquary...
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Massasoit (category Native Americans connected with Plymouth Colony)
group of influential Massachusett warriors intended to destroy both the Wessagusset and Plymouth colonies, and he warned the Pilgrims in time. The alliance...
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John Endecott (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
the colony's settlers (dividing between Nonconformists and Separatists), and poor relations with Thomas Morton, whose failed Wessagusset Colony and libertine...
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Governor (1698–1737) Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant Governor (1698–1705) Wessagusset Colony Governors Richard Greene, Governor (1622) John Sanders, Governor (1622)...
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needed] Chickatawbut's fears were confirmed when the Plymouth Colony expanded to Wessagusset, in Massachusett territory, with the arrival of a new ship of...
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America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New...
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Phineas Pratt (category Plymouth Colony)
Plymouth Colony. Pratt arrived as part of the company of Thomas Weston on the 1622 voyage of the ship Sparrow and was among the founders of the Wessagusset (Weymouth)...
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Phipps Street Burying Ground (category 1630 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
treacherous trek to Plymouth to warn Standish of the Indian uprising at Wessagusset (Weymouth). List of cemeteries in Boston National Register of Historic...
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Squanto (category Native Americans connected with Plymouth Colony)
temporary governor of the colony, died. After his burial and receiving directions to proceed from the succeeding governor of Wessagusset, Standish was appointed...
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McFarland, 2011, p. 14., ISBN 978-0-786464-96-8 Adams, D. Jr., Charles F., Wessagusset and Weymouth, Nabu Press, pp. 24–26, ISBN 978-1-248636-92-3 Jean-Baptiste...
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Charlestown, Boston (category 1620s establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Wessagusset (Weymouth) in September 1623 and arrived at what they called Mishawaum in 1624. John Endicott, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony...
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Passengers of the ships Anne and Little James 1623 (category Plymouth Colony)
the employ of Adventurer Thomas Weston with his failed settlement at Wessagusset (now Weymouth). In both the 1623 and 1627 divisions he was listed with...
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Thomas Weston (merchant adventurer) (category People of the Plymouth Colony)
children. Roger Conant died in June 1672. In early 1622, he began the colony of Wessagusset (Weymouth) which failed by March 1623. He left New England for Virginia...
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