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All ships entering Massachusetts Bay are quarantined to prevent epidemics.

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When the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony learns of epidemics in the West Indies, it orders a quarantine of all ships arriving from those ports. This is one of the first border protection strategies asserted by the British Crown.