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1675 – King Philip’s War breaks out in Massachusetts and Rhode Island which devastates the colony’s economy and destroys 1,200 homes and 12 settlements. King Charles II establishes the Lords of Trade to help regulate trade in the colonies.
8 lut 2019 · This article has examined the first century of attempts to map Massachusetts. During that time the emphasis shifted from piecing together the geography of eastern new England, to documenting the early years of settlement, and finally to supporting Massachusetts’ aggressive territorial claims.
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.
Boston’s furniture production was part of a regional and Atlantic World economy. Inequalities—too much skilled labor and production for a local market, too few resources to exist in isolation, and too much competition to remain conservative for long—drove artisans’ decisions.
18 sty 2021 · A preliminary expedition led by Puritan Separatist John Endicott (l. c. 1600-1665 CE) established a colony at Salem in 1628 CE, but a larger influx arrived in 1630 CE led by the Puritan lawyer John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649 CE).
In the early 1600s, in rapid succession, the English began a colony (Jamestown) in Chesapeake Bay in 1607, the French built Quebec in 1608, and the Dutch began their interest in the region that became present-day New York.
bibliographical survey considers work on the economy and society of British America in the period down to the American Revolution. I Few historians of British North America can be pilloried as economic determinists; colonial specialists have, to a remarkable degree, largely ignored the economy.
