Although individuals played a large part in the events of 1775, the demographics, history ... the colony retained its Puritan roots. Puritan beliefs led people in Massachusetts to establish ...
The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which ...
1687 – French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the ...