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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann in the north to Cape Cod in the south.
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- noun an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south
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Laverdière thinks this letter points to the bay of Boston or what we commonly call Massachusetts Bay, or to the Bay of all Isles as laid down by Champlain on the eastern coast of Nova Scotia.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601
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The new settlement was called the Massachusetts Bay [17] Colony, [18]
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Moreover, Champlain in the edition of his "Voyages" printed in 1613, says that in the year 1606 he and Poitrincourt explored a harbor (Barntable Harbor?) in the southerly part of what is now called Massachusetts Bay, in latitude 42x, about five leagues south, one point west of Cap Blanc (Cape Cod), and there they found many good oysters, and they named it "le Port aux Huistres" (Oyster Harbor).
Cape Cod 1865
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Jeff Hayward of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, told the Boston Globe: People are walking through the door who never have before…A lot of times they don't know what services there are or where to get them.''
Here's Life Inner City: Massachusetts Families Seeking Help in Record Numbers Here's Life Inner City 2011
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Jeff Hayward of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, told the Boston Globe: People are walking through the door who never have before…A lot of times they don't know what services there are or where to get them.''
Here's Life Inner City: Massachusetts Families Seeking Help in Record Numbers Here 2011
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Despite the state's long battle to clean up the once-notoriously polluted nook of Massachusetts Bay, he's getting support from unlikely allies.
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Often it is frankly biblical, beginning with John Winthrop's famous 1630 sermon "A City Upon A Hill" that gave a much-needed dose of self-confidence to the Massachusetts Bay colonists.
Jonathan D. Moreno: America's Problem With "Progress" Jonathan D. Moreno 2012
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Roads generally belonged to the intrepid: John Winthrop, the Massachusetts Bay governor, "never went traveling without a match, a compass, and a remedy for snakebite."
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Originally trained students to attend Harvard, the Massachusetts Bay colony's only college.
No. 5: Roxbury Latin 2010
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John Winthrop (governor of Massachusetts Bay) transferred the idea of "nationhood" in biblical Israel to the Massachusetts Bay Company.
Frank Schaeffer: "Christian-Zionism" Is Trouble for Israel and the USA 2010
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