no Massachusetts first
I think that the Puritans were the first to settle in Massachusetts
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts.
In the 1600s
the river
Thomas Hooker was band by the Puritans and so they sent him to Connecticut.
He was very dissatisfied with Massachusetts, because he didn't like how Winthrop and other Puritans ran the colony. Therefor he led a congress through the wilderness to Connecticut.
They settled in Massachusetts BAy Colony in 1630.
They went to massachusetts for religious freedom
Some went to Virginia, but most settled in New England, establishing the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620, the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the area of present-day Boston in 1829, and the Connecticut Colony in 1636.