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Events on Saturday 7 September 1630 1
1630Puritan settlers found BostonMassachusetts Bay Colony's main settlement establishedMembers of the Winthrop Fleet, having crossed from England earlier in the year, renamed the Trimountaine peninsula Boston after their Lincolnshire hometown. The settlement quickly became the political and religious center of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.