It was illegal to be a Presbyterian in England. The Puritans were thrown in prison. A group of businessmen bought a charter and the land for Massachusetts Bay from the king. They got the Presbyterian leadership out of prison and they went to Massachusetts Bay. They took a number of their followers with them. You can go to Boston, England, and see the jail that held the Puritan Fathers.
It was illegal to be a Presbyterian in England. The Puritans were thrown in prison. A group of businessmen bought a charter and the land for Massachusetts Bay from the king. They got the Presbyterian leadership out of prison and they went to Massachusetts Bay. They took a number of their followers with them. You can go to Boston, England, and see the jail that held the Puritan Fathers.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts was admitted to the Union on February 6, 1788. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was established by a land grant issued in 1628.
Mayflower Compact
Salem, Massachusetts was the first established town in Massachusetts Bay Colony. There was a group of settlers from the Dorchester Company that had settled there earlier and left, never establishing a town. This was on Cape Ann.