The Growth of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

In today's episode, we talk about the rapid start and growth of the Massachusetts Bay colony, along with some of the early issues faced by new governor John Winthrop.   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalCP  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.historical.context/  More on Matthew Cradock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cradock  More on John Endecott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Endecott  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 Marblehead Map By Rcsprinter123 - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56492461  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' 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  MA Bay Map courtesy of: http://gerard-tondu.blogspot.com/search/label/1630%20-%20Puritans%20settle%20down%20in%20Boston Read Higginson’s Writing on Marblehead: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03330.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/