Abstract
Bell describes the political and religious character of the Bay Colony from its settlement in 1630 until the 1680s—an era of the establishment and development of the Puritan state and church that was abruptly transformed by imperial authority. The establishment of the first Anglican congregation in the province and region was led locally by Edward Randolph, a royal customs official, local merchants with trading interests and contacts in London and Bristol, and by shopkeepers, tradesmen, and craftsmen. Bell notes that the founding of the London-based Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) in 1701 reformed the procedure for extending the Church overseas, wrested from the jurisdiction of the members of the Board of Trade and Plantations, and shaped imperial ecclesiastical policy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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