Massachusetts Bay Colony: Tolerant To Puritans

Rhode Island. This proves that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was only religiously tolerant to Puritans and gave others different political rights. Moreover, 1564 at Fort Caroline was completed only to survive a year till the Spanish St. Augustine. Commander Pedro Avilés wrote to King Philip II that he had “hanged all those we had found in because . . . they were scattering the odious Lutheran doctrine in these Provinces.” Furthermore, Puritan Boston believed Catholics and other Non-Puritans were anathemas who were often punished. In fact, Four Quakers were hung between 1659 and 1661 for expressing their beliefs.
In addition to limiting others political rights, the Government of the Colonies abused their power and altered the economic rights