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THE STATE NICKNAMES: Cape Cod & Cape Cod Bay. The Bay State. Massachusetts is most commonly known as The Bay State or The Old Bay State in reference to the Cape Cod Bay where early settlements were made and to the Massachusetts Bay Company given a royal charter in 1629 to promote settlement of the new land from sea to shining sea..
The same term is also used by the U.S. Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, which are not states where it has a distinct legal meaning.assachusetts is officially named The Commonwealth of Massachusetts by its constitution. The name  State of Massachusetts Bay  was used in all acts and resolves up to 1780 and the first draft of the constitution.