The royal province uniting Massachusetts, Plymouth, the islands and Maine under the charter of 1691.
Royal rule ended in 1775; became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1780.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Province of Massachusetts Bay — the shape you scrub through changes in 1692 · 1713 · 1750.
Covers the royal province through the Revolution that ended royal rule (broad context on the era).
The 1691 royal reorganization within the wider arc of British colonial America (broad context).
A study of the political culture of the province of Massachusetts Bay and the tensions that carried it into the Revolution.
Set in Salem in 1692, the very year the royal charter creating the Province of Massachusetts Bay took effect — the defining literary treatment of the witch trials that opened this polity's era.