colony established by the Puritans in the New World during the early and mid-1600s
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for the institution that founded it) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in
New England, centered around the present-day cities of
Salem and
Boston. The area is now in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, one of the 50
United States.
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