He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...

According to the hotel's website, The Wayside Inn dates all the way back to 1661, when John How, one of the first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was granted a license for a house of ...

The 17th century settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony needed a variety of supplies to build the colony. They bought some ...

In the 1620s, the first English settlers in Massachusetts had been dissenters from the Church of England: Puritans. More than 150 years later, on the eve of revolution, the colony retained its ...

Another colony called the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a group of English Puritans, later arrived and eventually absorbed Plymouth to form one royal colony.

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England ...