1629

Massachusetts Bay Company Chartered

1629

A group of Puritan merchants and country gentry obtained a royal charter to settle the coast north of Plymouth. By a happy oversight, the charter did not specify where the company had to meet, so the Puritans took it and themselves to New England, out of reach of royal oversight.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1626: Peter Minuit Arrives in New Netherland
After: June 12, 1630: Winthrop's Fleet Arrives at Massachusetts Bay

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1628: Oyo Expansion
After: June 12, 1630: Winthrop's Fleet Arrives at Massachusetts Bay

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company