The charter for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" id="mwOA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a> is issued.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_7#cite_note-5" id="mwOQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwOg">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt32" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFEugene_Aubrey_Stratton1986">Eugene Aubrey Stratton (1986). <i id="mwB1U">Plymouth Colony, Its History &amp; People, 1620–1691</i>. Ancestry Pub. p.<span id="mwB1Y" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>137.</cite><span about="#mwt32" class="Z3988" id="mwB1c" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Plymouth+Colony%2C+Its+History+%26+People%2C+1620%E2%80%931691&amp;rft.pages=137&amp;rft.pub=Ancestry+Pub&amp;rft.date=1986&amp;rft.au=Eugene+Aubrey+Stratton&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+7"></span></span>