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

About the author Amanda Taylor’s books are a mix of historical dramas ... Gone were the drab greys and browns of the Puritan age. She jingled the pebbles together—orange, pink, red and ...

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 ...

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 ...