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Massachusetts Bay Colony feared that Wampanoag chief Metacom – labeled by Puritans “King Philip” – planned to attack English ...

Colonial New Englanders began to associate Christmas ... noted a "transition state about Christmas" in New England in 1856. "The old Puritan feeling prevents it from being a cheerful, hearty ...

He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, Massachusetts. But while the Puritans had mostly set out to create a new, pure ...

Yorke.” Then Nicolls turned to his other mission. Decades earlier, the Puritans had planted colonies in New England, with Boston as their base. Nicolls and his emissaries were to bring the ...

The black-clad, steeple-hatted Puritan, walking warily to church with Bible in hand and musket on shoulder, is an enduring image of New England’s formative colonial era. In “The Wars of the ...

Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named Boston. Life was hard, but in this stern and unforgiving place they were free to worship as they ...

An ordained Puritan minister ... (Historian Daniel Crown has called him "the forgotten founding father of colonial New England.") Not until 1927 was a memorial building to Pynchon constructed ...

These Church of England reformers came to be known as Puritans ... as leaders of the colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent European settlement in New England and the first ...

To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households ... Mather had been in England, leading the fight to secure a new charter for the colony. At last his mission had ended and ...

Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named Boston. Life was hard, but in this stern and unforgiving place they were free to worship as they ...