Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known as the “Great Migration.” By 1645, they already surrounded and would in time absorb the ...

Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known as the “Great Migration.” By 1645, they already surrounded and would in time absorb the ...

I’m Bob Seay and this is a Radio Readers BookByte from High Plains Public Radio. I’ve been reading Sarah Vowell’s book, The ...

In these meetings Puritans took a freer approach to prayer and did not follow what Elizabeth had specified. She was concerned ideas might spread that challenged the Religious Settlement.

while English settlements popped up in the modern-day towns of Windsor, Wethersfield and Saybrook. In 1636, prominent Puritan minister Thomas Hooker traveled from the Boston area to Connecticut, ...

The word Puritan comes from ‘purity’ or ‘purify’. These were extreme Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England by returning to the simple and uncomplicated worship and way of ...

Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known as the “Great Migration.” By 1645, they already surrounded and would in time absorb the ...