In the article “This Great and Sore Affliction” Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra analyze the controversial religious views of Anne Hutchinson as she dwells in England and later settles in the New England colony‚ specifically in Boston‚ Massachusetts. The authors explain Anne Hutchinson’s life and inform the reader about the society of Puritan New England. The authors thesis of the article is that Anne Hutchinson posed a threat to the power and authority of the Puritan leadership of New England
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The Threat of Anne Hutchinson In Puritan led Massachusetts Bay Colony during the days of Anne Hutchinson was an intriguing place to have lived. It was designed ideally as a holy mission in the New World called the "city upon a hill‚" a mission to provide a prime example of how protestant lives should have subsisted of. A key ingredient to the success of the Puritan community was the cohesion of the community as a whole‚ which was created by a high level of conformity in the colony. Puritan
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indigo plants to obtain the Indigo dye; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts. English settlers started arriving in the colonies in 1607. Two different companies would finance the expeditions for the colonist. The Virginia Company and Massachusetts Bay Company would both set up colonies in the new world. They shared their similarities and differences while setting up the colonies. They would struggle the
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was involved with all of the colonies‚ Massachusetts‚ New Haven‚ Maryland‚ and Pennsylvania were established exclusively for religious purposes. The people in the Carolinas made a large profit off of sugar from Barbados‚ which attracted many settlers from all different cultures and increased the population. Migration and immigration between other colonies and the Carolinas was common because of the economic success of sugar. Puritans from Massachusetts and Catholics from Maryland came to share
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University of Massachusetts - Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Research Report 07: The Genetic Structure of an Historical Population: a Study of Marriage and Fertility in Old Deerfield‚ massachusetts 12-2-2008 Anthropology Research Reports series Chapter 1‚ Background of the Study Alan C. Swedlund Prescott College Swedlund‚ Alan C.‚ "Chapter 1‚ Background of the Study" (2008). Research Report 07: The Genetic Structure of an Historical Population: a Study of Marriage and Fertility in Old Deerfield
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In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massachusetts. By the standards of our own time‚ if not of that‚ it was a minor event‚ a spasm of judicial violence that was concluded within a matter of months. The bodies were buried in shallow graves or not at all‚ as a further indication that the convicted had not only forfeited participation in the community of man in this life‚ but in the community of saints in the next. Just how
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The Reverend Solomon Stoddard The Stoddard family traces back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1600’s. Anthony Stoddard was born around 1614 in London‚ England. His wife‚ Mary Downing was born around 1615 in London‚ England. They were married in Boston in 1639. Mary was the daughter of The Honoral Emanuel Downing of Salem‚ Massachusetts and the Sister of Lord George Downing‚ for whom Downing Street in London is named. She was also the niece of Governor John Winthrop. Anthony and Mary’s
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the Eastern Coast in the year 1607‚ in what is today known as Virginia and a little more than a decade later in the year 1620 the pilgrims settled at Plymouth in what is today known as Massachusetts. England gained control of the 13 colonies after winning the war against France. These 13 colonies were Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ Rhode Island‚ New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ Maryland‚ Delaware‚ Virginia‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina and Georgia. The first settlers of the American
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• English wanted to expand direct political control into the Americas • Replaced government positions with English Military officials. • Over-threw colonists’ established laws • New England‚ especially Massachusetts‚ resisted. • England punished them‚ declared them a royal colony. • England established the “Dominion of New England” • James II as well as others practiced Catholicism and allowed it to be worshiped. • Glorious Revolution‚ William and Mary (daughter of James II) rebelled‚ established
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Throughout 1607 to 1750 colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia were being settled and growing. These two states grew up very different from each other in aspects such as their economic development and it’s affect on their politics. In 1607‚ Jamestown in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement. It was in the Chesapeake Bay area. The people abroad the ships had ideas in their heads of digging and mining to find ways of obtaining gold‚ silver‚ and copper. It was their incentive to
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