Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Massachusetts Bay Colony
2. The Winthrop Society: The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
3. The Avalon Project: The Charter of Massachusetts Bay: 1629
4. University of Virginia: Salem Witch Trials
5. Library of Congress: America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century
6. HistoryTools.org: John Winthrop Calls Massachusetts Bay Colony “a City upon a Hill” (123 KB) 
7. The Hutchinson Players: Massachusetts Bay Colony

Massachusetts Bay Colony History and Information

• The Winthrop Society: The Constitution of the Massachusetts Bay Plantation
• Celebrate Boston: Massachusetts Bay Colony
• The State Library of Massachusetts: Governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Beginnings

• Colonial Ancestors: Massachusetts Colony
• Mass Moments: Puritans Leave for Massachusetts  | Excerpts from John Winthrop's Journal
• United States Internet Genealogical Society: The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, excerpts
• University of Groningen, Netherlands: From Revolution to Reconstruction, Massachusetts
• Forest D. King: Immigration to New England 1620-1640

Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• University of Notre Dame: Introduction to Early Massachusetts Currency
• Through the Looking Glass: Colonial Diseases
• Hanover College: The Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)
• The State Library of Massachusetts: The Body of Liberties, 1641
• University of Virginia: The History of Salem Massachusetts Vol 1 | Labor, etc.   | Life in the Colony  

Religion

• The Winthrop Society: A Model of Christian Charity
• Church History for the Masses: The Puritan Scene
• Washington State University: Puritanism in New England
• Constitution Society: "A Plea for Religious Tolerance" (1644)
• Mass Moments: Massachusetts Bay Colony Bans Catholic Priest

Massachusetts Bay Colony Timeline

• 1630: April 7, Winthrop's Fleet of 11 ships leaves England for America with 1,000 colonists
• 1630: June 12, Colonists land in the New World and settle in Salem
• 1630: October, Massachusetts General Court established
• 1635: Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts
• 1637: Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts Bay
• 1638: Harvard College was founded
• 1639: The first free American school called The Mather School
• 1641: First code of laws, Massachusetts Body of Liberties introduced
• 1643: Joined with Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven Colonies to form New England Confederation
• 1647: Catholic priests banned from the colony
• 1648: Margaret Jones, first person executed for being a witch
• 1658: Boston Law Against Quakers
• 1660: Mary Dyer executed
• 1675: Beginning of King Philip's War
• 1692: Salem Witchcraft Trials

Massachusetts Bay Colony Major Events

New England Confederation

• Wikipedia: New England Confederation
• The Avalon Project: The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
• MSN Encarta: New England Confederation

Quaker Persecution

• Wikipedia: Boston Martyrs
• World Spirituality: Persecution of Quakers in Colonial New England
• Mass Moments: Quakers Outlawed

King Philip's War

• Wikipedia: King Philip's War
• The History Place: King Philip's War in New England
• The Colonial Gazette: King Philip's War

Salem Witch Trials

• Mahalo's Guide to the Salem Witch Trials
• Wikipedia: Salem Witch Trials
• University of Missouri, Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692
• National Geographic: Salem Witchcraft Hysteria  
• Discovery Education: Salem Witch Trials
• CourtTV Crime Library: The Salem Witch Trials  

Massachusetts Bay Colony Historical Figures

John Winthrop

• Wikipedia: John Winthrop
• The Puritans Network: Biography of John Winthrop (163 KB) 
• Constitution Society: John Winthrop: On Liberty

John Endecott

• Wikipedia: John Endecott
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts: John Endecott
• Salem Focus: John Endecott

Thomas Dudley

• Wikipedia: Thomas Dudley
• The New Dudley Genealogies: Governor Thomas Dudley
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Governor Thomas Dudley

John Cotton

• Wikipedia: John Cotton
• A Puritans Mind: Memoirs of the Puritans John Cotton
• Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics: An Abstract of the Laws of New England

Anne Hutchinson

• Wikipedia: Anne Hutchinson
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Anne Hutchinson
• WayBack: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
• Anne Hutchinson: Anne Hutchinson's Creed
• AmericanHeritage.com: "Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts" (1974)  
• Harvard Magazine: "Anne Hutchinson Brief life of Harvard's "midwife": 1595-1643" (2002)

Mary Dyer

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Mary Dyer
• Notable Woman Ancestors: Mary Barrett Dyer
• Wikipedia: Mary Dyer
• Colonial Gazette: Mary Dyer: A Quaker Martyr

Increase Mather

• Wikipedia: Increase Mather
• Salem Witch Trials: Increase Mather
• University of Missouri, Famous American Trials: Increase Mather

Massachusetts Bay Colony Images

• Google Image Search: Massachusetts Bay Colony Images
• Yahoo! Image Search: Massachusetts Bay Colony Images
• Live Search Images: Massachusetts Bay Colony Images
• The Winthrop Society: Portraits
• Massachusetts Historical Society: Massachusetts Bay Colony Stock Certificate
• Massachusetts Historical Review: Remembering–and Forgetting–John Winthrop... (2004)

Massachusetts Bay Colony Maps

• University of Texas Libraries: Exploration and Settlements Before 1675
• Wikipedia: Massachusetts Bay Cony 1630-1691

Massachusetts Bay Colony Books and Research

• Massachusetts Historical Society: The Winthrop Papers
• Questia: Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Colony, Province and State Vol 1 
• Google Book Search: Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Amazon.com: Massachusetts Bay Colony Books
• Barnes & Noble: Massachusetts Bay Colony Books 
• Harvard University Press: The Puritans in America

Massachusetts Bay Colony Blogs

• Damn Interesting: Bad Rye and the Salem Witches
• Where's the Outrage? John Cotton of Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Boston 1775: Massachusetts Archeology Month 2007
• Reformed Covenanter: The New England Puritan Theocracy - The New England Puritan Theonomy

Massachusetts Bay Colony Commentary and Criticism

• Ex Post Facto: The Puritan Enterprise
• First Amendment Center: Roy Moore vs. Roger Williams: Two visions of America
• Archiving Early America: The Regular Singing Controversy: The Case Against Lining-Out 
• The New York Times: "The Puritan Dilemma" (2003)
• University of Tennessee: Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?

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