Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Author: George Francis Dow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2012-08-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486157857

Comprehensive, reliable account of 17th-century life in one of the country's earliest settlements. Contemporary records, over 100 historically valuable pictures vividly describe early dwellings, furnishings, medicinal aids, wardrobes, trade, crimes, more.

Building the Bay Colony

Building the Bay Colony
Author: James E. McWilliams
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780813926360

Using an intensely local lens, McWilliams explores the century-long process whereby the Massachusetts Bay Colony went from a distant outpost of the incipient British Empire to a stable society integrated into the transatlantic economy. An inspiring story of men and women overcoming adversity to build their own society, From the Ground Up reconceptualizes how we have normally thought about New England's economic development

Letters from New England

Letters from New England
Author: Everett H. Emerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1976
Genre: History
ISBN:

Extant letters addressed to England by Massachusetts Bay colonists during the colony's first decade are provided with linking narrative and explanatory notes.

Enemies of the Bay Colony

Enemies of the Bay Colony
Author: Philip Ranlet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

Enemies of the Bay Colony offers a narrative history of Puritan New England from its beginnings through the Great Awakening of the mid-18th Century. This newly expanded and revised edition features two new chapters on the Salem Witchcraft frenzy of 1692 and an account of the Pequot War and the death of Narragansett sachem, Miantonomo. In addition to the two new chapters, Enemies of the Bay Colony has been updated to include recent scholarship.

Understanding the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Understanding the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Author: James Wolfe
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766068714

Early American colonists were optimistic adventurers who helped build a new settlement. But they also experimented with creating a new society. The Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was the first political document written in the United States, a first attempt at self-government. Discover who wrote this document and why, and how it influenced the creation of the United States government.

John Winthrop

John Winthrop
Author: Ed Pell
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780736844840

A biography of John Winthrop, religious leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who worked hard and passed groundbreaking new laws while trying to protect Puritan beliefs.