The pilgrim certainly did not intend to continue to serve England; however, for the time being, the pilgrims had no choice to continue to serve under their King. The Mayflower compact was a treaty made by the pilgrim’s ideas of how the New England should be rather than their king. Certainly, these pilgrims were revolutionary in their principles. In The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony, Deetz covers how the Pilgrims were not Puritans but separatist. The similarities between this two principle, Puritans, and Separatist were that they both oppose the Church of England. The difference was that the Puritans wanted to reform the church from within its confines rather than to divide the Church, in contrast, the separatist
