In the 1630s, proprietors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to settle the Northampton area, spreading into the land that ...
Puritans tightly regulated both church and society and demanded ... Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known as the “Great Migration.” ...
Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England ...