Massachusetts Bay Company
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Commissioners of Massachusetts Bay
Company of the Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts Colony
Companie of the Massachusetts Bay
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found: NUCMC data from the Library of Congress Mss. Div. for New England Company. Records, 1655-1656(name not given; New England Company)
found: Dict. of Amer. hist., 1976(New England Company was the successor to the Dorchester Company, which began settlement of the Massachusetts Bay region, and precursor to the Massachusetts Bay Company)
found: Ency. Amer., c1992(Massachusetts Bay Colony see Massachusetts Bay Company; Influential Puritans invested in an enterprise that was chartered in 1629 as the Massachusetts Bay Company; in 1684 the charter was revoked; the government continued to function, however, until 1686, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony was absorbed into the Dominion of New England)
found: NUCMC data from Maine Hist. Soc. for Commissioners of Massachusetts Bay letter, 1662(Commissioners of Massachusetts Bay; also known as Massachusetts Bay Company)
found: A copy of the Kings Majesties charter, for incorporating the Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England in America, 1689:page 1 (charter of the Massachusetts Colony)
found: A coppie of ye Kings maiste charter for incorporating of the Companie of the Massachusetts Bay in New England in Amarica, between 1665 and 1675 [MS]
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1997-07-29: new
2021-02-18: revised
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