So, Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. They diverged in the early 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

If not for the Wampanoags, more Pilgrims would have starved ... part of the Great Puritan Migration to what became a New England. Winthrop had known Williams back in old England and considered ...

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky ... they would be punished. Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named Boston.

The Pilgrims who came to America in 1620 ... finally noted a "transition state about Christmas" in New England in 1856. "The old Puritan feeling prevents it from being a cheerful, hearty holiday ...

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

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky ... they would be punished. Arriving in New England, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in a town they named Boston.