Plymouth Colony was a success! Maybe not overnight but they survived. The next success story was The Massachusetts Bay Colony about a decade later. What happened in those years in between? Were there any other attempts to colonize the region? Once settled, how did Massachusetts Bay Colony differ from Plymouth? What were some of the well known settlements that emerged from this venture? How did they manage to attract some many like minded people. How was it organized and who were the prominent leaders? Why was Massachusetts Bay so much more successful than the Plymouth Colony? In this episode we will attempt to answer, in part, these types of questions. The answers will help to set us up for the future. Massachusetts Bay Colony would come to dominate the New England landscape for centuries. They impacted expansion and settlement well beyond their own borders, relationships with the natives, development of commerce, as well as, non-Puritan colonial expansion. In this episode we will begin to lay the groundwork for regional development that would ultimately take the New England Colonies right to the War for Independence.

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