The Massachusetts Bay Company acquire a land grant in New England

c 1628

-Some Plymouth investors join with new to form the New England Company or “The New England Company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay”

-They acquire a land grant for territory between Charles and Merrimack Rivers that extended from “the Atlantick and westerne sea and ocean on the east parte, to the South sea on the west parte”

-The New England Company becomes The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, as it acquires a royal charter granting it permission to govern the area

-The company elects Matthew Cradock as its first governor and begins organizing provisions and recruiting settlers