The Start of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Today's episode discusses the start of the Massachusetts Bay colony, which neighbored Plymouth and also contained English Puritans. Our episode will introduce John Winthrop whose book, "A History of New England" would chronicle the early days of the colony.

More on Matthew Cradock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew...
More on John Endecott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_En...
Read the Royal Charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_cent...
More on the Cambridge Agreement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...
Read “A History of New England”: https://archive.org/details/historyof...
More on John Winthrop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wi...
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...
Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song... License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...