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  2. History of the Puritans in North America - Wikipedia

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    e. In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England. Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church of England who believed that the Church of England was insufficiently reformed, retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrinal roots, and who therefore opposed royal ...

  3. Thomas Hooker - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage . Called today "the Father of Connecticut ", Thomas ...

  4. New Haven Colony - Wikipedia

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    The New Haven Colony was a small English colony in Connecticut Colony from 1638 to 1664, with outposts in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1] The history of the colony was a series of disappointments and failures. The most serious problem was that New Haven colony never had a charter giving it legal title to exist.

  5. Mary Dyer - Wikipedia

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    Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan -turned- Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs .

  6. Pride's Purge - Wikipedia

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    Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England . Despite defeat in the First English Civil War, Charles I retained significant political power.

  7. History of the Puritans from 1649 - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. From 1649 to 1660, Puritans in the Commonwealth of England were allied to the state power held by the military regime, headed by Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell until he died in 1658. They broke into numerous sects, of which the Presbyterian group comprised most of the clergy, but was deficient in political power since Cromwell's ...