The Start of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

<p>Today's episode discusses the start of the Massachusetts Bay colony, which neighbored Plymouth and also contained English Puritans. &nbsp;Our episode will introduce John Winthrop whose book, "A History of New England" would chronicle the early days of the colony. &nbsp;More on Matthew Cradock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cradock More on John Endecott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Endecott Read the Royal Charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mass03.asp More on the Cambridge Agreement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Agreement Read “A History of New England”: https://archive.org/details/historyofnewengl01wint/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater More on John Winthrop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop John Winthrop photo courtesy of: By Unknown author; when donated to the AAS, it was thought to be by a follower of Anthony van Dyck; Appletons&amp;#039; Cyclopædia of American Biography (1889, v.6, facing p. 572) attributes it to van Dyck. - http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Portraits/153.htm , additional provenance from the American Antiquarian Society: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Portraits/bios/153.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12601199 Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p>