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Boston is the capital of Massachusetts.
Charlestown was the first capital of Massachusetts. Boston then became the capital in 1634.
They are the same. The Puritans got permission from King Charles 1 to build a colony which they named "Massachusetts Bay". This remained the full name throughout the colonial period, but the word "Bay" dropped in common parlance. As a result, when Massachusetts Bay Colony became the State of Massachusetts, "Bay" was dropped altogether.
Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Massachusetts colony
The capital of Massachusetts is Boston.
No Massachusetts is not a southern colony. Massachusetts is a northern state, which in turn would have made it a northern colony.
Boston was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
No, Massachusetts, was a Self gov. colony
No Massachusetts is not a southern colony. Massachusetts is a northern state, which in turn would have made it a northern colony.
Massachusetts was a royal colony. ~B~
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