New England Puritans were hard-pressed by Native American warriors who knew how to fight in forests—and now had flintlock ...

Puritans wanted the English Protestant Reformation ... Traditionally, the Thanksgiving holiday calls to mind those first settlers’ courage and tenacity. However, the humanity that Pilgrims ...

Dodge was the great-grandson of a Revolutionary War veteran and a descendant of the Puritan settlers in Salem, Massachusetts. He worked in the logging business before establishing a farm near ...

But Puritan settlers like Maurice also went to America to experience religious freedom. Later, the other three Thompson brothers, including Kevin's direct ancestor Robert, followed Maurice to the ...

Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they hoped to worship freely, without harassment from church authorities. Some members of the ...

Like Haverill, it was originally inhabited by a small group of Puritans who emigrated from England. The Town Hall holds a book called Early Settlers Rowley, Massachusetts. Within the alphabetical ...

In the 1620s, the first English settlers in Massachusetts had been dissenters from the Church of England: Puritans. More than 150 years later, on the eve of revolution, the colony retained its ...

a reflection of the Puritans' unwavering commitment to their faith. Draconian laws, drawn from biblical texts, shaped every aspect of daily existence, impacting both the settlers and the ...