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1628 - 1691Duration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; after 1691 known as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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1628 - 1630Establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Puritans seeking to evangelize the native population of North America.
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1630John Winthrop migrates to North America with 700 Puritan colonists to become governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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1630 - 1649John Winthrop serves as governor or assistant governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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1630 - 1636Dissent in Massachusetts Bay Colony silenced by banishing those who challenge authority.
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1630 - 1633Thomas Morton sues Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony to have their charters revoked; legal briefs of the lawsuit become the drafts of his book New English Canaan.
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1634 - 1636Roger Williams in conflict with magistrates of Massachusetts Bay Colony; banished in 1636 CE.
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1636 - 1638The Pequot War; John Winthrop presides over policy concerning the massacre and enslavement of the Pequot tribe.
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1638Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony; founds Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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1675 - 1678King Philip's War in which thousands are killed as the Native Americans try to defend their land and way of life from increasing European colonization of the Americas.
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1691Plymouth Colony is absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the latter's new charter.
