#148 RESEARCH VISIT TO EARLY PURITAN ROOTS
Massachusetts Bay Colony — Brief Timeline as generated by chatgpt 1620 — Plymouth Colony founded . The Mayflower arrives at Plymouth. This was a separate colony from Massachusetts Bay. 1628 — Massachusetts Bay Company established. Puritan investors begin settlement at Salem . 1629 — Royal charter granted. King Charles I grants the Massachusetts Bay Company a charter. The company unusually transfers its government—and the charter itself—to New England. 1630 — The Great Migration begins. John Winthrop leads a fleet carrying roughly 1,000 Puritan settlers. Boston is established and becomes the colony's principal town. 1630s — Rapid expansion. Towns including Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury, Watertown, Cambridge and others develop. Thousands of English Puritans migrate to New England. 1634 — Representative government develops. The General Court comes to include elected representatives from Massachusetts towns. 1635–36 — Religious dissent produces confl...
