In fact, in 1659, the Puritan government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony went so far as to outlaw Christmas in order to ...
When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630 ... frustrated townspeople petitioned Massachusetts' Colonial government to construct a lighthouse at the edge of the harbor to make ...
Ten years after the Pilgrims first settled near Plymouth Rock, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was officially founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by Gov. John Winthrop.