In 1635, Rhode Island founder Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident.

Like other cities within English-held Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem was peopled by Puritan settlers ... fueling already intense personal rivalries between villagers and their religious and ...

He is a foundational figure in the national pantheon and leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as it settled Boston. Winthrop’s sensational account of "a great light in the night" was witnessed ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A one-of-a-kind super yacht was seen steaming into the San Diego Bay Thursday morning, but who does it belong to? The San Diego Web Cam livestream caught the moment on ...

Baystate Health, which runs Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and bills itself as the largest health care organization in Western Massachusetts, announced a leadership shake-up on Tuesday and ...

It is one of the most popular stretches of coastline in Australia. But a row is brewing in Byron Bay over a mammoth change starting today. From Tuesday, owners of short-term rental accommodation ...

In 1930, the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission distributed 275 cast-iron markers to 95 cities and towns across the Commonwealth to recognize the 300th anniversary of the original ...

New polling reveals a steep partisan divide in the Massachusetts race for U.S. Senate ... According to the latest Bay State Poll, a States of Opinion Project conducted by the University of New ...

Not agreeing with the Pilgrims either, Williams became a preacher in Salem, but was eventually banned from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a whole for his religious beliefs. Feeling old?5 of the ...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by John Winthrop, and Massachusetts officially became a state in 1788. However, the oldest town in ...