Traces the history of colonial Massachusetts as it developed from the "Holy Commonwealth" founded in 1620 to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1780.

The journal of a young girl tells of her daily life, hardships, romances and marriage during the first years of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth.

Welcome to Massachusetts, the colony most associated with the earliest sparks of the American Revolution. In this volume, readers learn about the landing of the Pilgrims, early settlements that grew into famous cities, and important figures in Massachusetts' history. The descriptions of major historical moments, including the Salem Witch Trials, Boston Tea Party, and Paul Revere's famous ride, are sure to engage and delight elementary readers. Engaging...

In Massachusetts, in the years between witchcraft delusion and Revolution, a curious, insightful Tamsin Bennett comes of age apprenticed to her Grandmother Cat, child of a healer-mystic accused of witchery. When Tamsin is stricken one morning with unearthly visions of her Papa, that day inexplicably he is found dead. Now keeping a tavern in a harbor town, she hides in plain sight to carry on the healing work of her foremothers, protects her family...

In January 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to suffer from inexplicable fits. Seventeen months later, after legal action had been taken against 144 people, 20 of them put to death, the ignominious Salem witchcraft trials finally came to an end. Mary Beth Norton gives us a unique account of the events at Salem, helping us to understand them as they were understood by those who lived through the frenzy. Describing the situation...

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

A biography of the 17th to 18th century reverend and New England political figure John Wise, who lead his town in protest against an arbitrarily imposed tax, acted as spokesman for one of the earliest 'No taxation without representation' challenges, petitioned for two of the most vigorously prosecuted victims in the Salem witch trials, and who advocated many other causes during his life.

A new look at Thomas Morton, his controversial colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans. Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian peoples and English colonists could coexist. Infamous for dancing around a maypole in defiance...

Examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony along with John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans who founded the colony in 1630.