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What did John Winthrop want to create in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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“A city upon a hill”
Their aim—according to John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay—was to create a model of reformed Protestantism, a “city upon a hill,” a new English Israel. ... The 1629 seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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John Winthrop wanted to create in the Massachusetts Bay Colony a reformed Protestantism "city upon a hill".

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