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"Massachusetts Bay Colony," settled at Salem; and in the following year came Governor John Winthrop, with eight hundred emigrants.
The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle
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Puritans, who founded the "Massachusetts Bay Colony".
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Puritans, who founded the "Massachusetts Bay Colony".
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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 Thaddeus Russell 2010
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John Winthrop, the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, explained that it was necessary to execute sodomites because their activities “tended to the frustrating of the ordinance of marriage and the hindering of the generation of mankind.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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John Winthrop Jr., the son of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, detailed the tasks necessary to make a civilization in the wilderness.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In the mid-seventeenth century, both the Colony of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted laws prohibiting Catholic settlers.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Marriage Equality and the Catholic Bishops Geoffrey R. Stone 2011
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In the mid-seventeenth century, both the Colony of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted laws prohibiting Catholic settlers.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Marriage Equality and the Catholic Bishops Geoffrey R. Stone 2011
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In the mid-seventeenth century, both the Colony of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted laws prohibiting Catholic settlers.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Marriage Equality and the Catholic Bishops Geoffrey R. Stone 2011
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"Anne Hutchinson got kicked out of Boston," he said, referring to the dissident Puritan leader who moved here after she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
History Stars in the House Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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