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According to Merriam-Webster, a corporate colony is a charter colony (as Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Virginia) having a royal charter granted to the inhabitants as a corporate body. Corporate colonies had a charter granted by the English monarch to stockholders.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritans founded Massachusetts. They came to Massachusetts for religious freedom. The bay colony was founded under a royal charter.
The Massachusetts Charter was a document that granted rights to the people of Massachusetts Bay Colony from the English government. A sort of colonial constitution. All the 13 colonies has one.
Massachusetts was governed by a royal charter. The land of the colony was granted by the king of England. It was to be governed according to English law.
Yes, Rhode Island and Connecticut were both known as corporate colonies. They had a charter granted to them as inhabitants designating them as a corporate body.
The General Court of Massachusetts was established in 1630 when the MA Bay Colony obtained a new charter from the King.
Voting was limited to the inhabitants that were full in church communions which left the limitations to a minority of male inhabitants.
A charter colony is a colony that was started with a charter. A charter is permission from the King or Queen to start a colony.
In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from 1630 to 1684, the colony was self-governed by laws drawn up by the Massachusetts General Court, which was established under the Massachusetts Bay Company charter. All of the representatives in the Massachusetts General Court were, necessarily, delegates from the Puritan congregations in their communities. Parliament revoked the charter in 1684 and sent over a royal governor in 1686.
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Puritans formed the New England company and received a royal charter to establish the Massachusetts Bay Company.