16/26 May 1692 |
the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, the Colony of New Plymouth, the Province of Maine, and the territory known as Accadia or Nova Scotia are united and incorporated into a province under the name of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, in accordance with letters patent (charter), issued by command of the King of England on 7/17 Oct 1691, which was read and published in Boston on 16/26 May 1692 (Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, 1:1-20; Notes on the Massachusetts Royal Commissions, p. 45) |