In 1629, the New England Company was renamed the Massachusetts Gulf Company and obtained the privilege of monopolizing colonial immigration, trade, and salt production. In 1630, a total of more than 1,000 people took 17 ships to establish a colony in Massachusetts Bay in North America. The Massachusetts Bay Company is different from the London company in that both the company and its shareholders moved from London to the Americas. Those who moved to the Massachusetts colony were all Puritans, including squires, homesteaders, and merchants. They expelled the local Indians and carried out bloody massacres of the Indians.
In 1634, 14 more ships and more than 900 colonists arrived and established 8 towns in Massachusetts Bay, including Boston. In 1684, the Massachusetts colony was revoked from its concession and became a colony under the jurisdiction of the British Crown. The territory was mostly English immigrants, reaching 20,000 at the end of the 17th century.