The Puritan commonwealth of the Great Migration — 20,000 settlers by 1640.
Charter annulled 1684; reorganized with Plymouth and Maine as the royal Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Massachusetts Bay — the shape you scrub through changes in 1630 · 1640.
The classic study of John Winthrop and the founding of the Massachusetts Bay commonwealth.
A foundational survey of the Puritan colonies of New England (broad regional context).
The foundational primary source — Bradford's own chronicle of the Mayflower voyage, the first years at Plymouth, and the colony's struggles through 1646. No serious Plymouth reading list is complete without it.
Puritan Boston of the 1640s and its economy of shame.