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Today is the day that I will be visiting the English colonies. I will be staying at a guesthouse which will be perfect for a couple of days. The english colonies are the New England colonies which are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. The New England was not like other colonies, they were really Religious and Puritans. The Puritans was two separate groups which were the plymouth colonists who were the people who believed that church of England was a corrupt, and the other group were the true christians. During the time that I was here I had to go to the Church on sunday at the meeting house. Everyone in the colony has to come and they had to set aside their work or anything they had to do that day and come to Church.

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