Strengths of the Puritans The Puritans who came to America were a very special kind of people. They had many very admirable characteristics.
First of all, they had to possess a great deal of courage and determination to be willing to leave their familiar lives behind and come to an unknown world. Anne Bradstreet, for instance, who was a puritan and was born in England and was raised there until she was 18. “She was married at the age of 16 to Simon Bradstreet,” who at the time had just “graduated from Cambridge University” and was associated with her father. She sailed with Winthrop’s fleet to the new world because Simon, Anne’s husband, had been “appointed to assist in the preparations of the Massachusetts Bay Company.” When …show more content…
Anne Bradstreet is a perfect example of this because, when she was a “young child, she had rheumatic fever, and as a result of it she suffered reoccurring periods of fatigue; nevertheless, she risked death eight times by childbirth.” “Her husband who was secretary of the company and later governor of the Bay Colony;” and who “was always involved in the colony’s diplomatic missions” with King Charles the II.” When he left in 1661 to go and “renegotiate the Bay Company charter with Charles the II, and left all of his cares to his wife.” But like any good Puritan wife she took the added care and added it to her daily life. In one of the “meditations that she wrote for one of her children? That she was troubled many times about the truth of the scripture?” Because she would never see any convincing miracles until it “was what proved to her finally that God exists was not her reading but the evidence of her own eyes.” She was “the first in a long-line of American poets” that didn’t find God in theology but in his wondrous works, She wrote, “ the wondrous works that I see, the vast frame of the heaven and the earth, the order of all things, night and day, summer and winter, spring and autumn, the daily providing for this great household upon the earth, the preserving and directing of all to its proper
First of all, they had to possess a great deal of courage and determination to be willing to leave their familiar lives behind and come to an unknown world. Anne Bradstreet, for instance, who was a puritan and was born in England and was raised there until she was 18. “She was married at the age of 16 to Simon Bradstreet,” who at the time had just “graduated from Cambridge University” and was associated with her father. She sailed with Winthrop’s fleet to the new world because Simon, Anne’s husband, had been “appointed to assist in the preparations of the Massachusetts Bay Company.” When …show more content…
Anne Bradstreet is a perfect example of this because, when she was a “young child, she had rheumatic fever, and as a result of it she suffered reoccurring periods of fatigue; nevertheless, she risked death eight times by childbirth.” “Her husband who was secretary of the company and later governor of the Bay Colony;” and who “was always involved in the colony’s diplomatic missions” with King Charles the II.” When he left in 1661 to go and “renegotiate the Bay Company charter with Charles the II, and left all of his cares to his wife.” But like any good Puritan wife she took the added care and added it to her daily life. In one of the “meditations that she wrote for one of her children? That she was troubled many times about the truth of the scripture?” Because she would never see any convincing miracles until it “was what proved to her finally that God exists was not her reading but the evidence of her own eyes.” She was “the first in a long-line of American poets” that didn’t find God in theology but in his wondrous works, She wrote, “ the wondrous works that I see, the vast frame of the heaven and the earth, the order of all things, night and day, summer and winter, spring and autumn, the daily providing for this great household upon the earth, the preserving and directing of all to its proper