| CAMBRIDGE | 1629 agreement in which English stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company pledged to resettle in New England |
| WINTHROP | John ___, first governor of the Massachusetts bay colony |
| SMETANA | Czech composer meant to resettle in South Africa (7) |
| MEATCUBE | Police to arrest a trainee English stockholder? |
| COMPROMISES | Came to agreement company pledged to take on 1000 (11) |
| COD | Key commodity for the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| MOVETO | Resettle in |
| ASSISTANT | He helps saints resettle in Tasmania (9) |
| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| CROFTS | Scottish smallholdings used to resettle some of the tenants affected by the infamous Highland Clearances (6) |
| LAND | The former territories in Canada granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 (7,4) |
| RUPERTS | The former territories in Canada granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 (7,4) |
| SWEETHEART | --- deal, an agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual (10) |
| THEBOSTONIANS | Henry James novel, published in 1886, set in the Massachusetts capital from which the work takes its |
| FORTRELIANCE | ___ ___ national historic Site of Canada (hudson's bay company installation built in 1833 in the northwest Territories) |
| SALEM | Village in Massachusetts Bay Colony that held a series of witch trials in 1692 and 1693 (5) |
| EMIGRATE | Hard to leave hermitage when unsettled -- one needs to resettle? (8) |
| SETTLE | Meet the cost of dinner at the end of resettle (6) |
| ADAMS | Main author of the Massachusetts constitution |
| RUPERTSLAND | Canadian territory originally held by the Hudson's Bay Company that comprised the drainage basin of Hudson Bay (7,4) |