North American Colonization

The first 400 settlers under the new charter departed in 1629 to start the Puritan colony of Massachusetts Bay, but not all of the Company were Puritans. Therefore events during the spring of and summer of 1629 convinced them they could remain as noncomformist in the Church of England by leaving the country.
Perhaps by oversight the company's charter made no mention of where the headquarters had to be located. In August the shareholders reached an agreement a...