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>Date:    Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:58:02 -0700
From:    Ruth Barton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Roundheads

Donald,  It is my understanding that the Pilgrims came to MA first, they
started the Plymouth colony and they separated from the Anglican church.
The Puritans came later started the Mass Bay Colony and they wanted to
reform the Anglican church not separate from it.  Ruth<


Well, you are closer to the source than I am (though I was born in Boston
and supposedly have a Mayflower ancestor but so do millions of oter
people). Yes, the Puritans wanted to take over and reform the English
church, which they eventually did. The Pilgrims were a group of Puritans
who called themselves Pilgrims because they looked on their wanderings to
Holland and to America as a pilgrimage. The Mass Bay Colony does indeed
date from later on when the Puritans had more power--this is exactly my
point--that events in England determined the situation in the colonies.
Within 20 years the Puritans went from hated and despised and expelled sect
to running the mother country. In 1620 they got lost looking for Virginia
and ended up on Cape Cod for the winter, in 1640 they beheaded Charles I
and ruled England until 1666. This had to have an effect on politics here.
Seems to me this relationship is often overlooked. 

As for the Dutch in NY, that makes sense to me too. 

Don White
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