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Events on Sunday 4 March 1629 1
1629Massachusetts Bay Company charteredRoyal charter grants land and self-government in New EnglandCharles I granted a royal charter to the Massachusetts Bay Company, authorizing a Puritan-led colony in New England with an unusually high degree of self-government. The charter enabled the Great Migration of Puritan settlers to Massachusetts over the following decade.