Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 3 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.:

... facile people than the New England men. Yet they intrusted the affair entirely to Sir William's management. He was to get settlers as cheaply as possible; yet at any rate to get settlers. Like Massachusetts , Virginia was the mother of a cluster of states; like the towns of New England, the plantations of Virginia extended along the sea. The country on Nansemund River had been settled as early as 1609; ...
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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) 30,598 276 0 0 0 user votes

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