Winthrop was elected Governor before the colony set out from England in 1629, and would continue to govern for fifteen of the colony's first twenty years. First Governor of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay for His Original Manuscripts With Notes. The Dominion of New England combined these and other New England colonies into a single unit in 1686, but collapsed in 1689. In 1692 the Province of Massachusetts Bay was established, merging Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, which then ⦠Dudley, Thomas 1576-1653 English colonial administrator in America who served as governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1634, 1640, 1645, and 1650) and as one of Harvard College's first overseers. Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. Thomas Dudley, (born 1576, Northampton, Eng.âdied July 31, 1653, Roxbury, Mass. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. (Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin, 42 Congress Street, 1853). was the first written constitution in the New World, it will serve as a model for the American Constitution written in 1787 Roger Williams- Was the founder of Rhode Island, also a religious refugee from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he allowed all religions to worship freely 7 Felt. ), British colonial governor of Massachusetts, for many years the most influential man in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, save for John Winthrop.. Dudley was the son of a country gentleman in England.After being converted to Puritanism he joined with other Lincolnshire gentlemen in the Cambridge Agreement to ⦠2 Quicungue venti erunt, Ars nostra certe non aberit.-Cicero.2 "You are the light of the world. BIOGRAPHY: Governor Thomas Dudley was the second Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was commissioned President of the United Colonies. Matthew Craddock was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. - Matthew 5:14 Who Was the First Governor of Massachusetts? John Winthrop (January 12, 1587/88 â March 26, 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony.Winthrop led the first large wave of colonists from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years. John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts 1588 - 1649 John Winthrop, a Puritan lawyer, was a founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its first Governor.Winthrop, along with Thomas Dudley, founded the town of Boston. This independence helped the settlers to maintain their Puritan religious practices without interference from the king, Archbishop Laud, or the Anglican Church. Vol. FIRST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY Adapted from the Account by Cotton Mather in âMagnalia Christi Americanaâ Edited by J. Parnell McCarter. The speech was later used in the content of American Exceptionalism. 5 Ibid. 6 Savage, James, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649 by John Winthrop, Esq. The Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first English chartered colony whose board of governors did not reside in England. Step 1 : Introduction to the question "For whom was the ship, on which the man who served as governor for 12 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's first 20 years sailed to the New World, named ?...Hint :Member Step 2 : Answer to the question "For whom was the ship, on which the man who served as governor for 12 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's first 20 years sailed to the New ⦠5. John Winthrop, known today for his speech, A Model of Christian Charity, where the concept of the Colony as a city on a hill appears. I. 11. A city on a hill cannot be hidden." The colonial history of Massachusetts begins with the founding first of the Plymouth Colony in 1620, and then the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628. (Boston: Phelps and Farnham, 1825).