The Puritans and Massachusetts 1630 P2

In the spring of 1630, and 1,000 Puritans (more than the total number of inhabitants living in the then 10-year-old Pilgrim Plymouth Colony) left England in the “Great Puritan Exodus,” sailing to America and establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This was America’s second northern colony, and third overall It adjoined the Pilgrims’ Plymouth Plantation Colony, and in 1691, the two merged to become Massachusetts. During their voyage, the Puritans “constantly served God, morning and evening, by reading and expounding a chapter (in the Bible), singing and prayer.

While at sea, their leader, John Winthrop, later the Colony’s governor for many years, penned “A Model of Christian Charity,” setting forth the Puritan’s reasons for starting the new colony.

Content Sourced from The American Story, The Beginnings. By: David Barton and Tim Barton