Puritans tightly regulated both church and society and demanded proof ... They diverged in the early 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

Puritans were religious fanatics — the Christian nationalists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Most know they came by the boatload from England in the early 1600s, searching for their religious ...

In England and in the American colonies in the 1600s ... inhabited by Puritans who called themselves Separatists who wanted to separate from the church of England, prohibited Christmas and ...

1588-89 Some Puritans published anonymous pamphlets called the Marprelate Tracts, complaining about the Church and bishops. The authors were never identified, although John Penry was believed to ...