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  2. Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) - Wikipedia

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    The Puritan migration to New England took place from 1620 to 1640, declining sharply afterwards. The term "Great Migration" can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1]

  3. History of the Puritans in North America - Wikipedia

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    In 1630, the first ships of the Great Puritan Migration sailed to the New World, led by John Winthrop. [10] [11] John Winthrop (1587/8-1649), Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who led the Puritans in the Great Migration, beginning in 1630.

  4. List of Puritans - Wikipedia

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    Lives of the Puritans by Benjamin Brook and Daniel Neal's History of the Puritans; Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640 (multi-vol series), Boston: New Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.

  5. English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

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    From 1630 through 1640, approximately 20,000 Puritans emigrated to New England in a Great Migration. [20] In 1642, after the English Civil War began, a sixth of the male colonists returned to England to fight for Parliament, and many stayed, since Oliver Cromwell was himself a Puritan. [21]

  6. Puritans - Wikipedia

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    The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of ... The large-scale Puritan migration to New England ceased by ...

  7. Winthrop Fleet - Wikipedia

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    Arrival of the Winthrop Colony, by William F. Halsall. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 [1] funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration.

  8. History of the Puritans from 1649 - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Puritan settlement of New England was a major influence on American Protestantism. With the start of the English Civil War in 1642, fewer settlers to New England were Puritans. The period of 1642 to 1659 represented a period of peaceful dominance in English life by the formerly discriminated Puritan population.

  9. William Vassall - Wikipedia

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    By the early 1640s, “the New England economy was turning downward.” [40] Plymouth Colony, harder hit economically than Massachusetts Bay, was “rapidly and irretrievably declining.” [41] Migration “stopped” in 1640 with England’s establishment of the Long Parliament, as Puritans no longer feared persecution in their homeland. [42]