Compare And Contrast The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1629 -1692), James Town (1606- 1624), Plymouth (1620 To 1657), And Pennsylvania (1681- To 1700)

Compare and Contrast the Massachusetts Bay colony (1629-1692), James Town (1606-1624), Plymouth (1620- to 1657), and Pennsylvania (1681 to 1700)

Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Rev. William Blaxton arrived in North America in 1629 with the first English settlers. In 1630, John Winthrop left Salem to install a group of Puritans, the city founded in the same year, and Boston takes the name of a town in Lincolnshire, North East of England, which came from its founders. It has legal status and creating representative institutions. It spread throughout the colony of Massachusetts Bay it is the county seat. In 1692, the colony united with the Plymouth Colony, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and what became the State of Maine (Province of Maine) the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to form the province of the Bay of Massachusetts. The name comes from the Massachusetts Indian tribe of Algonquins Massachusetts. The first colony, the colony Popham, is installed at the mouth of the river Kennebec in the present state of Maine, but is soon abandoned in 1608. Other jurisdictions have agreed to the south of the 41st parallel to the London Company (Virginia Company of London). On the 21st of December, 1620 on the Mayflower, 102 settlers, 37 Pilgrim Fathers, the English dissenters, landed in America (New England), to Cape Cod and founded the Plymouth Colony, the first city in Massachusetts, out of the concession granted by King (1622). These Pilgrim Fathers (35 in all) had to flee Nottingham (1608), to reach Leiden in the United Provinces. They sign an agreement, the Compact of the Mayflower, which is the foundation of a democracy Calvin.

James Town

Jamestown was the first permanent settlement of English colonists in North America, in the present state of Virginia, founded on May 14, 1607. Historically, it was the second permanent settlement in the area of today's United States, when founded in 1565 by the Spanish city of St. Augustine in Florida. Previous 17 attempts by the Anglo-Saxon settlement (including the so-called. “Cologne Lost" on the island of Roanoke in North Carolina) were unsuccessful. On the 26th of April 1607, the ships reached the broad bay Chesapeake, received in her, and sailed up the river James for 17 days, until they find a suitable place for a settlement (more than 70 km from the mouth). ...