The Growth of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

20/12/2021 17 min Temporada 7 Episodio 2

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In today's episode, we talk about the rapid start and growth of the Massachusetts Bay colony, along with some of the early issues faced by new governor John Winthrop.  
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More on Matthew Cradock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cradock 
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Read “A History of New England”: https://archive.org/details/historyofnewengl01wint/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater More on John Winthrop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop Marblehead Map By Rcsprinter123 - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56492461 
John Winthrop photo courtesy of: By Unknown author; when donated to the AAS, it was thought to be by a follower of Anthony van Dyck; Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1889, v.6, facing p. 572) attributes it to van Dyck. - http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Portraits/153.htm , additional provenance from the American Antiquarian Society: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Portraits/bios/153.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12601199 
MA Bay Map courtesy of: http://gerard-tondu.blogspot.com/search/label/1630%20-%20Puritans%20settle%20down%20in%20Boston Read Higginson’s Writing on Marblehead: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03330.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/