This was in rely to Ruth's of a few days ago. You actually read these postings as they happen--so if you can't follow the thread, who could?

On 4/18/04 at 5:31 pm [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 4/18/2004 5:01:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> 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.
> If my rants about the Jews are as confusing to you WASPy types as this was
> to
> me, I apologize.
>
> Ralph
>

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