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2 unusual facts about Province of Massachusetts Bay


David Sewall

He had a private practice in York 1760, and became register of probates for York County in 1766, and a justice of the peace for the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1767.

Jasper Mauduit

Jasper Mauduit was an agent in London of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and a successor of William Bollan, who served as agent from 1746 to 1762.


Barnard, Vermont

The town was chartered on July 17, 1761, by a New Hampshire Grant and named after the second-listed grantee of the town (with five others), Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, and since 1760 Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

Dominion of New England

The resulting Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose charter was issued in 1691 and began operating in 1692 under governor Sir William Phips, combined the territories of those two provinces, along with the islands south of Cape Cod (Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands) that had been Dukes County in the colony of New York.

Explanatory Charter

The Explanatory Charter was a supplement to the royal charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay issued by King George I on August 26, 1725.

Treaty of Watertown

The Treaty of Watertown, the first foreign treaty concluded by the United States of America after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, was signed on July 19, 1776, in the Edmund Fowle House in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts Bay.


see also

1755 earthquake

1755 Cape Ann Earthquake, a magnitude six earthquake near the British Province of Massachusetts Bay (present-day American state of Massachusetts) on November 18, 1755

William Phipps

Sir William Phips or Phipps (1651–1695), governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay