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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Master of African Grand Lodge #1, and Mormon Elder John Murray, Representative to the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay for Rutland's...
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  • Assembly of Prince Edward Island Province House (Boston, Massachusetts), residence of colonial governors of the Province of Massachusetts Bay This disambiguation...
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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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    Bay. Cape Cod National Seashore lies along the coast as well. The town line between Eastham and Orleans is the site of the termini of Massachusetts Routes...
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    to Massachusetts Bay. The European presence in the era began when John Tinker established a trading post with the Nashaway tribe at the confluence of Nod...
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    existed in Massachusetts prior to 1834. The first Warren, now in Rhode Island, was located on land combining parts of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and...
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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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    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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    Andrew Oliver (category Members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    an American-born merchant and colonial administrator in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Born into a wealthy and politically powerful merchant family...
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    census. Nathan Jones purchased the township of East Hoosac at auction in 1762 from the Province of Massachusetts Bay for £3,200. In 1778, the town was officially...
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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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  • 1854), Member of Parliament for Leitrim Samuel White (Massachusetts politician) (1710–1769), lawyer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay Samuel White (American...
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  • From 1699 to 1741 the governorships of New Hampshire and the Province of Massachusetts Bay were shared. Boundary disputes between the two colonies prompted...
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    Kingston is a coastal town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,708 at the 2020 census. Before European settlers arrived...
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