* 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 Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts 1588 - 1649 John Winthrop, a Puritan lawyer, was a founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its first Governor. Winthrop, along with Thomas Dudley, founded the town of Boston. Winthrop was elected Governor before the colony set out from England in 1629, and would continue to govern for fifteen of the colony's first twenty years. His goal, to erect a pious Puritan state, is expressed in his City on a Hill speech.