* 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.
Ironically, three years after her arrival Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony at the court in Newtown and the next year, in 1638 excommunicated from the Boston church.hey soon relocated to what is today the Boston area and settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colonists were united by the persecution they had faced in England and in the words of their leader, Governor John Winthrop, a sense of religious mission to build a city on a hill.