Massachusetts Bay Colony 1631, Illuminated Challenges, Foundational Resilience, Essential, Interconnected.
“The years 1630 to 1640 are known as the Great Migration. The largely Puritan immigrants from England settled in New England, north of the settlement at Plymouth Bay, in a stretch of land known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The major centers of the new colony were the eastern coastal Massachusetts towns of Boston and Salem. During the Great Migration, an estimated two hundred ships reportedly carrying approximately 20,000 people arrived in Massachusetts. Although migration to New England dropped dramatically after the Great Migration, the descendants of the people who entered Massachusetts in those years settled much of the northeastern region of the United States and later spread westward throughout the country.”
~ Carl L. Bankston III, “History of immigration, 1620-1783”, (11-01-2012)
Addendum: Here is an excellent thesis by Robert I. Brackett, which analyzes The Decline of Puritanism in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1700.
It gives a very interesting perspective on how the influence of the Early Puritan Settlers of that time began their long decline as early as the 1630s, culminating with their overall defeat in the 1692 Witchcraft Trials several decades later.
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