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Massachusetts Bay, British America
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Massachusetts_Bay,_British_America
GPTKB entity
Statements (52)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
British colonial territory
gptkbp:area
approximately 27,000 square miles
gptkbp:capital
gptkb:Boston
gptkbp:charteredBy
gptkb:King_Charles_I_of_England
gptkbp:currency
Pound sterling
gptkbp:dissolved
1691
gptkbp:established
1628
gptkbp:flag
gptkb:Flag_of_Massachusetts_Bay_Colony
gptkbp:governingBody
gptkb:Massachusetts_Bay_Company
gptkbp:governmentType
gptkb:colonial_administrator
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Massachusetts Bay, British America
gptkbp:locatedIn
gptkb:New_England
gptkbp:mergedInto
gptkb:Maine
gptkb:Plymouth_Colony
gptkb:New_Hampshire_(part)
Nova Scotia (part)
gptkbp:namedAfter
gptkb:Massachusetts_tribe
gptkbp:notableEvent
gptkb:Salem_witch_trials
gptkb:Pequot_War
gptkbp:notablePerson
gptkb:John_Endecott
gptkb:John_Winthrop
gptkbp:notableTown
gptkb:Andover
gptkb:Beverly
gptkb:Braintree
gptkb:Cambridge
gptkb:Charlestown
gptkb:Concord
gptkb:Dedham
gptkb:Dorchester
gptkb:Gloucester
gptkb:Hingham
gptkb:Ipswich
gptkb:Lynn
gptkb:Malden
gptkb:Marblehead
gptkb:Medford
gptkb:Roxbury
gptkb:Salem
gptkb:Sudbury
gptkb:Weymouth
gptkb:Woburn
gptkb:Newbury
Reading
Watertown
gptkbp:officialLanguage
English
gptkbp:partOf
gptkb:British_America
gptkbp:population
about 20,000 (by 1640s)
gptkbp:predecessor
gptkb:Plymouth_Colony
gptkbp:religion
gptkb:Puritanism
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Sir_David_Ochterlony
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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