* 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.
These included John Winthropâs Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded in 1630, which became the most populous and prosperous colony in the region. Plymouthâs influence in New England declined accordingly, until it was absorbed by Massachusetts in 1691.