Plymouth, Massachusetts

world was to find religious freedom and have the ability to praise God as he pleased. During his voyage to America, Bradford wrote about all the obstacles the colonists faced and how they overcame them in his narrative, “Of Plymouth Plantation”. William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation” both excites and motivates the reader to encourage a change in his or her surroundings just as Bradford did over three and a half centuries ago. Bradford inspires this change through constant references to God,…

History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay: The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case against Anne Hutchinson(1637), vol. II, 1767 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936), pp. 366–84. In this book, Thomas Hutchinson uses the same dialogue of the antinomian controversy of 1636-1638 that broke out in…

Englishmen who were looking to make a profit from gold and silver. Life in Virginia wasn't easy for the first settlers who settled in Jamestown Virginia and they faced many hardships. Pilgrims settled Massachusetts in 1620 and were followed by the Puritans in 1630. Puritans settled in Massachusetts for religious freedom and were escaping…

the old man to Plymouth where he would have been shipped off as a slave … instead Church asked him where he wanted to live out the rest of his life… Church made some enquiries and soon Conscience had a new home.” By using Church’s exact reactions and speech it paints him as more dimensional. This is especially true given his views on the enslavement of the indians, Philbrick writes, “To Church’s mind, the enslavement of Indians from Plymouth and Dartmouth in the summer of 1675 was “an action so…

1. Hofstadter 18-21 Richard Hakluyt “Discourse of the Western Planting” The passage depicts the arguments that Richard Hakluyt makes to convince the Queen of England to support Sir Walter Raleigh's and Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s colonization efforts. Through the passage, Hakluyt brings up the religion, economy, and power. He stresses that the colonies can be used as tools to convert Indians to Christianity, which has now been reformed due to the Protestant Reformation. Hakluyt also states that…

conflicts between the English colonies and the Wampanoag tribe. Native American leader, Metacom, was known to the English as King Philip. In 1675, three Wampanoags were executed by Plymouth officials. The natives retaliated by murdering English colonists. Metacom led the Wampanoags and their allies in war against Plymouth. Other colonies and tribes soon joined the fight and it became all out war. Victory was won after the colonies joined forces with Native American allies. Eventually, Metacom…

In 1620 around 100 English men and women boarded the Mayflower. This boat landed on the shores of Cape Cod in Massachusetts and they anchored in Plymouth Rock. More than half of the settlers died but the ones who survived made peace treaties with the Native Americans and built a large economy. The settlers died the first winter from illness and disease. They were introduced to a Native…

Massasschuetts. It was the infamous colony of Plymouth. The colony was founded by the pilgrims, who were fleeing Europe on the grounds of religious persecuetion. So…

Jamestown and Plymouth In the early 15th century, Europeans began to set their eyes on the horizon in search of a new world. As countries began to set sail in hopes of gold, God and glory, the idea of permanent settlement in the New World was out of mind, at least at first. As both Spain and Portugal ruled over the mercantile scene, England was yet to make its mark. Feeling the pressure, England joined the hunt for natural resources without knowing it would one day be the start of the modern…

Puritains of the time to leave their homes in hopes of freedom in the New World to pray and worship as they like, but many soon after lost focus on this original purpose and moved on to new ones. In the writings of Puritains such as, "Huswifery", "Of Plymouth Plantaion", and other works. you see the transformation from their original purpose, of free worship, for traveling to the New World, to newer purposes such as conversion of non-believers, wealth, and culture. While Puritains came to the…