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:   / historicalcp   Follow us on Instagram:   / the.historical.context   More on Matthew Cradock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew... More on John Endecott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_En... Read “A History of New England”: https://archive.org/details/historyof... More on John Winthrop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wi... Marblehead Map By Rcsprinter123 - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... 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/In... , additional provenance from the American Antiquarian Society: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/In..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... MA Bay Map courtesy of: http://gerard-tondu.blogspot.com/sear... Read Higginson’s Writing on Marblehead: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03... Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song... License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...