These notes, printed by the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1713, 1717 ... expenses incurred during King William’s War. Other colonies followed suit. To thwart counterfeiters, Massachusetts ...

Salem Village—in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (Salem Village is present-day Danvers, Massachusetts; colonial Salem Town became what’s now Salem.) The displaced people placed a strain on Salem ...

A silver coin minted in colonial Boston in 1652 has sold ... in Boston for use as currency by early settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.” Purchased by an anonymous bidder from the United ...

Read on for the full scoop on it and the other 12 original colonies. This New England colony started ... Dickens). Massachusetts was originally the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by a group of Puritan refugees from England led by John Winthrop, and Massachusetts officially became a state in 1788. However, the oldest town in ...