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

He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...

Church and state were to be coordinate ... Franciscus Junius, to whom the Puritans often looked, went so far as to say that the magistrate “in his political order assists his society in aspiring ...

They felt their only option was to leave the church and create new, separate churches. Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they ...

Puritans wanted the English Protestant Reformation to go further. They wished to rid the Church of England of “popish” – that is, Catholic – elements like bishops and kneeling at services.

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1588-89 Some Puritans published anonymous pamphlets called the Marprelate Tracts, complaining about the Church and bishops. The authors were never identified, although John Penry was believed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

They felt their only option was to leave the church and create new, separate churches. Known as "separatists," these Puritans left their homeland and in 1609 moved to Leiden, Holland, where they ...