Founding of New England Colonies

Religious motives

Calvinism – omnipotent God, predestination, depravity of man

Pilgrims

Separatists

1608, Scooby to Leyden, Holland

problems

Virginia Company

William Bradford

Mayflower, 1620, 35 saints

Mayflower compact

Plymouth plantation

Pokanokets

Starving time, first winter

Miles Standish, military style discipline

Puritans

Congregationalist, reform the Church of England

Charles I, 1620

William Laud, Archbishop of Cantebury

Massachusetts Bay Company - Joint Stock Company

John Winthrope

Arbella

Model of Christian Charity

Errand into the wilderness

City upon a hill

Covenant

Middling Sort

1630 – 1,000

1643 – 20,000

Voting

Land

Family

Expansion

Connecticut – 1636

New Haven – 1638

New Hampshire – 1638

Pequote & Mystic River

Dissent

Quakers – 1650

Roger Williams – Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson

Puritans absorb Plymouth, 1691