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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1630   Massachusetts Bay Colony Although other colonies preceded it, the Bay Colony soon dominated the region because of effective organization and massive migration. colony, settlement, Puritans
1634   John Endecott defaces King's colors Radical Puritan John Endecott of Salem believed that the image of the cross was idolatrous. A website for the Popham Colony has a representation of such a flag. Endicott, Endecott, flag, Hawthorne, Puritans
1636   Thomas Hooker leads settlement at Hartford.   colony, settlement, Puritans
1637   Anne Hutchinson banished, settles Portsmouth, RI Among her supporters was Mary Dyer, a future religious martyr. Rhode Island, Puritans, Hutchinson, Antinomian
1702   Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana" This immense history of New England includes biographical vignettes of early ministers and governors, but also stories of captivites and accounts of diabolical possession. history, Puritans

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