Puritan Pilgrimage Research Paper

Even before the Puritans made their voyage to the “New World” or what we know it as North America, they had to deal with the hardships that are hardly talked about when it comes to the “Puritan Pilgrimage”. As the dictionary of Merriam-Webster states “The Puritans were a group religious members who were apart of a Protestant group, these members follow strict rules and believe that pleasure is wrong” In the early years of 1608, the town of Scrooby which had a group of Puritan separatists, migrated to the Netherlands from England to avoid persecution from the “Millenary Petition” that was made in 1604 by King James the First. After 12 years pass and the year 1620 rolls around the group of Puritan separatists from the town of Scrooby return to England and board the Mayflower hoping to find and pursue a new life in the “New World” while not even knowing what …show more content…
Also the first Quakers in Massachusetts are arrested and banished and with Oliver Cromwell’s death taking place, the door for English supremacy struggles immensely. As the 1660’s roll around the now called “American Puritans” hopes for reform are thrown out of the window once Catholic Charles the Second is crowned the king of England. While Quakers are still being arrested in Massachusetts and some of them being executed Charles the Second has put them to a halt. In the year of 1675 the Wampanoags and Puritans battle in King Philip's War, the sole purpose of this war was the final Native American push to get all of the Puritans out of southern New England. With this war lasting only 14 months there were 12 frontier towns that got destroyed during it all. The war was ended shortly after King Phillip was captured and beheaded, some of his supporters if you will call them that escaped and headed north to now present day