* The Tax Law requires the interest rate on sales tax assessments or late payments to be set at 14.5% for this quarter.
More than a week after the vessel first set out, the winds were finally favorable. The ship weighed anchor and sailed for New England. Governor John Winthrop and approximately 300 English Puritans were on board. They were leaving their homes in England to settle in a fledgling colony â Massachusetts Bay â on the other side of the Atlantic.
John Mason took a group of people from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to find more fertile farming land. The land in Massachusetts was too rocky. The Puritans who went with Mason thought they could worship more freely if they left the group as well.They settled in Portsmouth and found the New Hampshire Colony.ohn Mason took a group of people from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to find more fertile farming land. The land in Massachusetts was too rocky. The Puritans who went with Mason thought they could worship more freely if they left the group as well.