The Start of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Today's episode discusses the start of the Massachusetts Bay colony, which neighbored Plymouth and also contained English Puritans.  Our episode will introduce John Winthrop whose book, "A History of New England" would chronicle the early days of the colony.  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' 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/