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5 dni temu · A year later Charlestown organized the first board of selectmen, the emergence of such local government balancing the power of the colony’s executive. A county system was patterned after the English model, in which the greater powers reside in townships and cities rather than in the counties.
The economy transformed from one based primarily on agriculture to an industrial one, initially making use of waterpower and later the steam engine to power factories, and canals and later railroads for transporting goods and materials. [56]
28 wrz 2016 · In 1627, the Plymouth Company investors were unhappy with the lack of return they saw from the colony and the colonists agreed to buy them out for £1800, which was to be paid in installments of 200 pounds a year over nine years.
15 paź 2024 · Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley.
Although the Massachusetts economy of this era was one of the most impressive in the British empire, it was precariously based. Lacking rich soils or other valuable resources save lumber, the colony, to a degree unmatched by any other colony, depended upon maritime activities for her economic well-being.
purposes, including the relief of the poor.1 These actions were the first formal steps taken to provide public poor relief in Massachusetts. Thereafter, settlement and provision for pub-lic poor relief advanced hand in hand. With one possible ex-ception, every community in the Plymouth and Massachusetts
1 dzień temu · Commercial and industrial expansion marked 18th-century Massachusetts and resulted in the rapid settlement of new communities, many spurred by speculation. Between 1692 and 1765, 111 new towns and districts were incorporated, while the population increased to 222,563.
