Massachusetts Bay Colony

Anchored off the inhospitable coast of Massachusetts, a meager band of 88 Pilgrims, weak and weary from their lengthy voyage, stared at two terrible behemoths: in front of them was a vast, hostile land and behind them was the powerful, immense Atlantic Ocean which cut them off from the rest of the world. After they set foot on the rocky shores and watched the Mayflower sail past the edge of the endless horizon, one can only imagine the settlers’ unbearable sense of being all alone, separated…

Most of their cities including Boston were predominantly industrial cities. They industrialized fishing, lumber, shipping, shipbuilding, whaling, and other materials.The north became the most industrious of the American colonies. And because of their democratic government, by 1676 in Connecticut, wages and prices were regulated, so that everyone would get a fair share. Their profits did not only benefit them, it also “enabled them to serve God and their neighbors with their…

Simon, Anne’s husband, had been “appointed to assist in the preparations of the Massachusetts Bay Company.” When…

mercantilism, more money in the colonies meant more power for the mother countries. The hunt for gold attracted not only countries, but companies like the Virginia Company. Although some focused on gold, others viewed America as a new religious start. Everyone that came to the new world was seeking a better life; colonization was the beginning of the American dream. The religious groups and gold prospectors over time join together and create the thirteen original colonies. Jamestown, founded in…

England for their radical beliefs, they travelled to Denmark and Sweden before finally embarking on a ship to North America where they had the promise of freedom to practice. The Puritan communities in New England resolved to create an ideal Christian colony as outlined by John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity by centering their lives around the church, converting the neighboring Native Americans, and support the whole of the society they formed. In John Winthrop’s famous sermon, the…

Towards the end of the unrest, that would become known at the Antinomian controversy, John Winthrop, a founder of Puritan Massachusetts, wrote a letter concerning the exiled dissenter Anne Hutchinson. In his first sentence, he coined the term that hundreds of years later would inspire the works of countless historians. “American Jezebel,” has become synonymous with Anne Hutchinson, a woman in Puritan New England who boldly stood up for her religious beliefs in a society where women were…

This liberty you are to stand for, with the hazard not only of your goods but of your lives, if need be” (185), which showed his beliefs on liberty and how a government should be conducted. Winthrop was very involved in political activities in his colony. He believed government ran by the people could not last. In the quote, “It is liberty to evil as well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, and cannot endure the least restraint of the most authority [sic]”…

In the 1600s a group of protestants who wanted to purify the church of ceremony and hierarchy fled to america after being persecuted back in england settling in the massachusetts bay colony. In the 1630 a group of settlers under the command of John Winthrop who became the first governor of Massachusetts land in Massachusetts, with them Anne Dudley, daughter of Thomas Dudley, marrying simon Bradstreet at the age of sixteen. As an educated woman she was taught to read and write and became the…

They knew they had to punish every sin committed in Massachusetts. This was not taken lightly as the whole community agreed to this because a sin unpunished might expose them all to the wrath of God (p. 64). Families became places of virtue where the mother and father had to discipline not only their children…

community fought for their liberty by constantly criticizing the Puritans for practicing martyrdom. An example of them protesting against the Puritan Government was when Humphrey Norton penned a letter to John Endecott, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, stating that Mr. Endecott would face a terrible fate and associated the persecution of Quakers with the crucified Christ. Humphrey, a Quaker missionary, protested and attacked the mistreatment of the Quakers by his own accord using…