Puritan and Pilgrim was not synonymous terms. The Puritans were those who sought to purify the English church and to modify forms, while remaining with in it. ... But eventually the Puritans became independents, not only in America, but in England as well. ... Many Puritans of 1630 were men of education and fortune, members of Parliament, or clergymen of the most liberal education. ... Volume1: TO 1877 Nation of Nations Morgan, Edmund The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth Century New England , Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop Underwood, Devon Wome...

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