...by the Company in England, to whom the land had been granted by King Charles. This company bore the name of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England. This was in 1630, the year that Winthrop came over. He set sail from England in April, and, before...

...to hold by the same tenure and made them 'a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name', by the name of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England. That this government was at the time intended to be permanent, there seems to be no doubt. This large...