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1629 |
Great Migration (first) begins. |
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1634 |
Wood, William Wood. New England Prospect. |
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08/31/1638 |
Large number of immigrants arrive in Boston. |
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1643 |
Population of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is estimated at 15,000. |
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04/30/1649 |
Solomon Franco arrives in Boston. |
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1649 |
New England colonists are invited to settle in Ireland. |
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1651 |
Shipment of Scots prisoners is consigned to Thomas Kemble of Charlestown. |
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1662 |
Some 40,000 English colonists inhabit New England. |
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1685 |
French Huguenots begin to arrive in Boston. |
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1700 |
Cotton Mather warns against the threat of Irish immigration. |
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