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This Day in Boston History September 17th, 1603
John Winthrop
Establishes Puritan Boston
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this day Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled
on the Shawmut peninsula, and founded the town of Boston.
Winthrop, a puritan lawyer, was elected governor before the colony set out
from England, and would continue to govern for fifteen of the colony's first
twenty years.
His goal, to erect a pious Puritan state is expressed in his "City on a
Hill" speech. Puritan theocracy could be harsh and forbidding, such as when
he exiled Anne Hutchinson and others for their unorthodox views. He ably
defended the colony's charter in a letter to the Lords Commissioners of
Plantations (1638) and was elected President of the Confederation for the
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