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  2. History of the Puritans in North America - Wikipedia

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    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 ecclesiastical policy.

  3. Puritans - Wikipedia

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    Puritan churchgoers attended two sermons on Sundays and as many weekday sermons and lectures they could find, often traveling for miles. [62] Puritans were distinct for their adherence to Sabbatarianism. [63] Puritans taught that there were two sacraments: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Puritans agreed with the church's practice of infant ...

  4. History of the Quakers - Wikipedia

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    The Quakers. (1988), 412pp; historical survey, including many capsule biographies online edition Archived 2012-06-27 at the Wayback Machine; Barbour, Hugh. The Quakers in Puritan England (1964). Benjamin, Philip. Philadelphia Quakers in an Age of Industrialism, 1870–1920 (1976), Braithwaite, William C.

  5. List of Mayflower passengers - Wikipedia

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    Pilgrims John Carver, William Bradford, and Miles Standish, at prayer during their voyage to North America. 1844 painting by Robert Walter Weir. According to the Mayflower passenger list, just over half of the passengers were Puritan Separatists and their dependents.

  6. Plymouth Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Pilgrims distinguished themselves from another branch of Puritans in that they sought to separate themselves from the Anglican Church, rather than reform it from within. It was this desire to worship from outside of the Anglican Communion that led them first to the Netherlands and ultimately to New England.

  7. Mayflower - Wikipedia

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    Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.

  8. History of the Puritans under King James I - Wikipedia

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    In 1620, a group of Puritan separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, made their famous sea voyage on the Mayflower across the Atlantic to settle Plymouth Colony. They were led by governor William Bradford and church elder William Brewster. The Pilgrims were originally a part of the Puritan separatist movement in England.

  9. Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) - Wikipedia

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    The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon .