Twenty-five years ago, Gov. Bill Weld made history when he abolished Middlesex County. Middlesex was established in 1643 as one of Massachusetts Bay Colony’s original three counties.

The Plymouth Bay Colony would, after 70 years, become a part of the greater Massachusetts Bay Colony, and through the years, disparate settlements evolved to become more interconnected.

Founded in the early 17th century, the Massachusetts Bay Colony had a predominately Puritan population who governed from the basis of their beliefs. Richard Pickering of Plimoth Plantation gave ...

A decade before the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first to construct a viewing gallery for the House of Representatives. Massachusetts created the ...

Interior view of a 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony House, shows furniture and a fur rug on the floor. In 1957, the house was installed inside the United States National Museum, now known as the ...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans in 1630, and the two colonies merged to become the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691. Plymouth history: The oldest town in MA is older ...

In 1930, the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission distributed three markers to the town as part of an initiative recognizing the 300th anniversary of the original colony’s founding.

Last week’s Salem Gazette carried a front-page article about the 17th-century Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter. Some speculated that Salem’s Endecott Charter “may be the only original copy ...

Harvard University was originally founded by a vote by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on Oct. 28, 1636, less than 20 years after the Pilgrims first landed in ...

On February 6, 1788, Massachusetts Bay Colony was no longer. Just 12 years after the United States became a country, Massachusetts joined the Union and became its sixth state.

The "Penalty for Keeping Christmas" was a law enacted under Puritan rule in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659. For the next 22 years, ...