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Definition of Massachusetts bay
1. Noun. An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south.
Generic synonyms: Bay, Embayment
Terms within: Cape Cod Bay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Massachusetts Bay
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Literary usage of Massachusetts bay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"In 1637 the people of Massachusetts had the Pequot war on their hands, and Charles
I. was plotting the overthrow of the Company of massachusetts bay, ..."
2. The Papers of Lewis Morris, Governor of the Province of New Jersey from 1738 by Lewis Morris, William Adee Whitehead (1852)
"PROPOSITIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS OF massachusetts bay, ENCLOSED IN THE FOREGOING.
Albany 20 June 1744 To His Excellency the ..."
3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1848)
"The first planting the massachusetts bay with towns, ... having taken a view of
the bottom of the massachusetts bay, and finding that there was ..."
4. Three Episodes of Massachusetts History: The Settlement of Boston Bay; the by Charles Francis Adams (1892)
"Under the terms of its charter the massachusetts bay company had, like other
business and commercial corporations before and since, an organization ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"... and the Plymouth patent on the other, including the whole of massachusetts bay.
This grant of March 19th, 1628, extended westward to the Pacific, ..."
6. A History of the American People by Woodrow Wilson (1917)
"CHARTER OF massachusetts bay COLONY, 1629 "The Governor and Company of the
massachusetts bay in New England" were granted a patent by the Council for New ..."
7. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Benjamin Perley Poore, United States Congress. Senate (1878)
"THE SECOND CHARTER OF massachusetts bay— [See "Massachusetts," pages 942-954.
... colonies of massachusetts bay and of Plymouth into " one Royal Province, ..."
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