Massachusetts Bay Colony

NOUN
  1. one of the British colonies that formed the United States
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  • In his Defence of the American constitutions, Adams had asked if the name of Andros [a hated colonial governor] and that of Winthrop [founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] are heard with the same sensations in any village in New England? America's First Dynasty
  • Many of Wahhab's puritan teachings bore certain similarities to those of Cromwell's 17th century supporters in England and their cousins in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735.
  • Our dominant “Christians” are the lineal descendants of originally German Anabaptists crossbred with a strain of militant Calvinism brought over by the good folks of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Inc. and marinated in propaganda about American Exceptionalism. Matthew Yglesias » Boehner Rejects Bipartisanship
  • Originally trained students to attend Harvard, the Massachusetts Bay colony's only college. No. 5: Roxbury Latin
  • “Our dominant “Christians” are the lineal descendants of originally German Anabaptists crossbred with a strain of militant Calvinism brought over by the good folks of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Inc. and marinated in propaganda about American Exceptionalism.” Matthew Yglesias » Boehner Rejects Bipartisanship
  • In 1635 John Cotton, one of the principal ministers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared that the new land should forbid “[l]ascivious dancing to wanton ditties, and amorous gestures and wanton dalliances . . . [which] I would bear witness against as a great flabella Libidinis [fanning of sexual desire].” A Renegade History of the United States
  • This has ever seemed to me one of the fortunate conditions that tended to the marked success of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, that so many had been "clothiers" or cloth-workers in England; or had come from shires in England where wool was raised and cloth made, and hence knew the importance of the industry as well as its practical workings. Home Life in Colonial Days
  • In 1635 John Cotton, one of the principal ministers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared that the new land should forbid “[l]ascivious dancing to wanton ditties, and amorous gestures and wanton dalliances . . . [which] I would bear witness against as a great flabella Libidinis [fanning of sexual desire].” A Renegade History of the United States
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