Massachusetts Bay Colony
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- proper noun
- /ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts beɪ ˈkɒləni/
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Colonia de la Bahía de Massachusetts
- More likely, such buckles were owned by the more prosperous Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony—and the Pilgrims were not Puritans.
- Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Examples
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The first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, chose a site along the river for his farmstead, known as Ten Hills (a place name that survives to this day).
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Several times more, she was freed with the warning never to return to the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and each time she returned to preach Jesus Christ as understood by the Friends (Quakers), the role of an inner light being the primary basis of faith, taking precedence even over the Gospel.
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William Vassall returned to London in 1647 to demand religious freedom in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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"We've got enough redcoats in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there was an attempt to limit colonization to townships to keep the population concentrated.
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Plymouth Colony and the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony were separate entities until the 1690s.
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"They would not have allowed the Pilgrims to establish Plymouth Colony, or let the Puritans flourish in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to their south.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony, a commercial venture much like the Cape Colony, passed a Body of Liberties in 1641 which, although strongly discouraging forced slavery, recognized its existence.
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Many important decisions were made in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the early 17th century.
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John Winthrop led the initial group of settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Massachusetts + bay + colony
The name is compositional: it specifies a "colony" associated with "Massachusetts Bay," so a learner who knows 'Massachusetts', 'bay', and 'colony' can infer it refers to a settlement located on Massachusetts Bay (historically a colonial settlement). As a place-name built from literal constituents and a common geographic/administrative pattern, the meaning is directly derivable and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Massachusetts Bay Colony comes from the large bay where English settlers landed in the early 1600s. The settlers built towns around Massachusetts Bay and formed a 'colony', a group of settlements, so the name simply means the English settlements by that bay.