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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Date and Place    Person ID   Tree 
151 Winthrop, Joshua  Abt 12 Dec 1648 I29578 Duane's Ancestors 
152 Yorke, James  14 Jun 1648 I29837 Duane's Ancestors 

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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Timeline

1630
Feb:  The Lyon leaves Bristol, England on its first voyage to Massachusetts.S2A
8 Apr:  The Winthrop Fleet finally sets sail from England heading for Massachusetts Bay.PP M-CH
May:  The Lyon arrives in Salem.S2A
17 Sep:  The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded (September 7th, old style).MassMoments CT
1 Dec:  The Lyon leaves Bristol, England on its second voyage to Massachusetts.S2A GoogleBooks
1630/1
5 Feb:  The Lyon arrives in Salem.RWFA S2A
1631
23 Aug:  On or about 23 August 1631, the Lyon leaves London on its third voyage to Massachusetts.F-a-G S2A
2 Nov:  The Lyon arrives in Nantasket.S2A GoogleBooks
1632
22 Jun:  The Lyon leaves London on its fourth voyage to Massachusetts.S2A Whipple
16 Sep:  The Lyon arrives in Boston.S2A ISTG
1635
23 Apr:  Boston Latin School, the oldest school in America, is founded.BLS tBLS
9 Oct:  Puritan minister Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.MassMoments RiA
1636
28 Oct:  Harvard College is founded.HC 1stCC
1648
15 Jun:  Margaret Jones, a midwife from Charlestown, is the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.HoMA LoA
18 Oct:  The "Shoomakers of Boston" along with the coopers, form the first labor organization in America.jstor IA
1656
11 Jul:  The first Quakers arrive in Boston.RACC Christianity
27 Oct:  Two Quakers who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in July to escape religious persecution, are executed for their religious beliefs.History.com Mises
1660
1 Jun:  Mary Dyer is hanged on Boston Common for defying a law banning Quakers from Massachusetts Bay Colony.WeN Christianity
1689
18 Apr:  Bostonians revolt against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.MAState NEHS
1690
3 Feb:  Massachusetts Bay issues the first paper money in America, essentially hand-written promissory notes - IOUs .TheAtlantic ANS
10 Dec:  Massachusetts Bay issues the first mass produced, printed currency in North America - £7000 worth.NDU Barron's
1704
24 Apr:  The first regular newspaper in America, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.VT LoC
1715
23 Jul:  The General Court of Massachusetts passes the Boston Light Bill which authorizes the construction of a lighthouse in Boston Harbor.MassMoments MM&P
1716
14 Sep:  Boston Light is lit for the first time.LF MassMoments
26 Nov:  The first live, tamed for exhibit, African lion in America is displayed in Boston, Massachusetts.TiS
1717
27 Feb:  A series of four successive snowstorms create the Great Snow of 1717.NEHS NWS
1721
26 Jun:  During a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston begins inoculating patients beginning with his own son.MassMoments CW
1722
2 Apr:  The first of a series of letters by Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin) appear in the Boston newspaper, The New England Courant.MassMoments USNA
1755
18 Nov:  The largest earthquake in Massachusetts history occurs at Cape Ann.HI USGS
1760
20 Mar:  A "Great Fire" begins at a tavern in Boston and destroys about 350 homes, shops and warehouses by the time it is over.MassMoments BFHS
1770
5 Mar:  The Boston Massacre. British troops kill five colonists.LoC NPS
1773
16 Dec:  The Boston Tea Party.BTPS MALeg
1774
25 Mar:  British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act.SCOnline ABH
1775
18 Apr:  Paul Revere rides out to warn the colonists that the British troops were on the march.PRH LoC
1776
24 Jan:  After several months, the cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga make it to Boston.APC AHC
17 Mar:  The British evacuate Boston after learning that the Continental Army has cannon trained on them from Dorchester Heights.MassMoments MassHist
1780
4 May:  The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is founded.TiS AAoA&S
19 May:  Smoke from forest fires cause The Dark Day of 1780.NEHS HI