Back in Europe, Puritans wanted the Church of England to be pure and simple, but they did not want to separate from it. Puritans, who were wealthy landowners and merchants, emigrated to Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay to escape religious “persecution” and to create a town where they could govern themselves. The Puritans were committed to establish their religion from they ways they viewed God’s laws. King Charles I allowed the Puritans to begin a new colony in Massachusetts Bay in 1629. In the video The Pilgrims and The Puritans, the narrator states that Puritans built a model community in Massachusetts Bay for all the world to see. Puritans wanted everyone to live the way they did in a simple community that was constantly being surveyed
