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Describe the settlement of New England; include religious reasons, relations with Native Americans (e.g., King Phillip’s
War), the establishment of town meetings and development of a legislature, religious tensions that led to the founding of Rhode Island, the half-way covenant, Salem Witch Trials, and the loss
of the Massachusetts charter and the transition to a royal colony
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Separatists
Separatists
vs. vs.
PuritansPuritans
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The Box marked
Religious Reasons
Separatists – wanted to separate from the Church of England (The Pilgrims)
Puritans- wanted to Purify or Change the Church of England (almost everyone else)
Mayflower Compact-
King Phillip’s War
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PuritanismPuritanismCalvinism Institutes of the Christian Religion
Predestination.
• Good works could not save those predestined for hell.
• No one could be certain of their spiritual status.
• Gnawing doubts led to constantly seeking signs of “conversion.”
Puritans: Want to totally reform [purify] the Church
of England.
Grew impatient with the slow process of Protestant Reformation back in England.
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Sources of Puritan Migration
Sources of Puritan Migration
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1620 a group of 102 people [half Separatists] Negotiated with the
Virginia Company to settle in its jurisdiction.
Non-Separatists included Captain Myles Standish.
Plymouth Bay way outside the domain of the Virginia Company. Became squatters without legal right to
land & specific authority to establish a govt.
The MayflowerThe Mayflower
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The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620
The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620
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The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620
The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620Written and signed before the Pilgrims disembarked from the ship.
Not a constitution, but an agreement to form a crude govt. and submit to majority rule.
Signed by 41 adult males.
Led to adult male settlers meeting in assemblies to make laws in town meetings.
1st Constitution: Thomas Hooker and The Fundamental Orders of CT
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Covenant TheologyCovenant Theology
“Covenant of Grace”: between Puritan communities
and God.
“Social Covenant”: Between members of Puritan
communities with each other.
Required mutual watchfulness.
No toleration of deviance or disorder.
No privacy.
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That First Year….That First Year….Winter of 1620-1621
Only 44 out of the original 102 survived.
None chose to leave in 1621 when the Mayflower sailed back.
Fall of 1621 First “Thanksgiving.” Colony survived with fur [especially
beaver], fish, and lumber.
Plymouth stayed small and economically unimportant.
1691 only 7,000 people
Merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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The First Thanksgiving?
The First Thanksgiving?
In 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving an official US holiday.
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William BradfordWilliam BradfordSelf-taught scholar.
Chosen governor of Plymouth 30 times in yearly elections.
Worried about settlements of non-Puritans springing up nearby and corrupting Puritan society.
A Model of Christian Charity
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Colonizing New England
Colonizing New England
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First Seal of MA BayFirst Seal of MA Bay
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The MA Bay ColonyThe MA Bay Colony1629 non-Separatists got a royal charter to form the MA Bay Co.
Wanted to escape attacks by conservatives in the Church of England.
They didn’t want to leave the Church, just its “impurities.”
1630 1,000 people set off in 11 well-stocked ships
Established a colony with Boston as its hub.
“Great Migration” of the 1630s Turmoil in England [leading to the English
Civil War] sent about 70,000 Puritans to America.
Not all Puritans 20,000 came to MA.
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John WinthropJohn Winthrop
We shall be as a
city on a hill..
Well-off attorney and manor lord in England.
Became 1st governor of Massachusetts. Believed that he
had a “calling” from God to lead there.
Served as governor or deputy-governor for 19 years.
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Land Division inSudbury, MA: 1639-
1656
Land Division inSudbury, MA: 1639-
1656
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Characteristics of New England Settlements
Characteristics of New England Settlements
Low mortality average life expectancy was 70 years of age.
Many extended families.
Average 6 children per family.
Average age at marriage: Women – 22 years old
Men – 27 years old.
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PatriarchyPatriarchy
Authoritarian male father figures controlled each household.
Patriarchal ministers and magistrates controlled church congregations and household patriarchs.
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Founding of Rhode Island
Roger Williams – treat Indians as equals, pay for land, limit/no slavery
Anne Hutchinson – believed women could pray without the aid of men
Halfway Covenant
HC - if your family member was an active Puritan, you could still vote. Before only church members could vote.
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Puritan “Rebels”Puritan “Rebels”Young, popular minister in Salem. Argued for a full break
with the Anglican Church.
Condemned MA Bay Charter.
• Did not give fair compensation to Indians.
Denied authority of civil govt. to regulate religious behavior.
1635 found guilty of preaching newe & dangerous opinions and was exiled.
Roger Williams
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1636 Roger Williams fled there. MA Bay Puritans had wanted to exile him
to England to prevent him from founding a competing colony.
Remarkable political freedom in Providence, RI
• Universal manhood suffrage later restricted by a property qualification.
• Opposed to special privilege of any kind freedom of opportunity for all.
RI becomes known as the “Sewer” because it is seen by the Puritans as a dumping ground for unbelievers and religious dissenters More liberal than any other colony!
Rhode IslandRhode Island
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Intelligent, strong-willed,well-spoken woman.
Threatened patriarchal control.
Antinomialism [direct revelation] Means “against the law.”
Carried to logical extremes Puritan doctrine of predestination.
Holy life was no sure sign of salvation.
Truly saved didn’t need to obey the law of either God or man.
Puritan “Rebels”Puritan “Rebels”
AnneHutchinson
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1638 she confounded the Puritan leaders for days.
Eventually bragged that she had received her beliefs DIRECTLY from God.
Direct revelation was even more serious than the heresy of antinomianism. WHY??
Puritan leaders banished her she & her family traveled to RI and later to NY. She and all but one member of her family
were killed in an Indian attack in Westchester County.
John Winthrop saw God’s hand in this!
Anne Hutchinson’s Trial
Anne Hutchinson’s Trial
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New England Spreads Out
New England Spreads Out
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New England Colonies, 1650
New England Colonies, 1650
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Indians especially weak in New England epidemics wiped out ¾ of the native popul.
Wampanoags [near Plymouth] befriended the settlers. Cooperation between the two
helped by Squanto.
1621 Chief Massasoit signedtreaty with the settlers. Autumn, 1621 both groups
celebrated the First Thanksgiving.
Puritans vs. Native Americans
Puritans vs. Native Americans
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Religious Reasons
Separatists – wanted to separate from the Church of England (The Pilgrims)
Puritans- wanted to Purify or Change the Church of England (almost everyone else)
Mayflower Compact-
King Phillip’s War
Early conflict with Indians and Br. Settlers, removed Indians from NE colonies
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The Pequot Wars: 1636-1637
The Pequot Wars: 1636-1637Pequots very
powerful tribein CT river valley.
1637 PequotWar
Whites, withNarragansettIndian allies,attacked Pequotvillage on Mystic River.
Whites set fire to homes & shot fleeing survivors!
Pequot tribe virtually annihilated an uneasy peace lasted for 40 years.
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A Pequot VillageDestroyed, 1637A Pequot VillageDestroyed, 1637
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Only hope for Native Americans to resist white settlers was to UNITE.
Metacom [King Philip to white settlers] Massasoit’s son united
Indians and staged coordinated attacks on white settlements throughout New England.
Frontier settlements forced to retreat to Boston.
King Philip’s War (1675-1676}King Philip’s War (1675-1676}
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The war ended in failure for the Indians Metacom beheaded and drawn and
quartered.
His son and wife sold into slavery.
Never a serious threat in New England again!!
King Philip’s War (1675-1676}King Philip’s War (1675-1676}
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Population of the New England Colonies
Population of the New England Colonies
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Population Comparisons:New England v. the
Chesapeake
Population Comparisons:New England v. the
Chesapeake
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Puritan Political Life
• Freemen (adult male heads of families) ruled in church meetings and town meetings.
• theocracy, not democracy was the goal. Winthrop's vision of a "City Upon a Hill."
• Halfway Covenant developed to allow unbaptized members (children of Puritans) to vote and thus preserve influence of Puritan authorities. – Halfway Covenant lead to a weakening of
Puritan Influence
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• Old Deluder Act- NE law– In towns of 50 or more
persons, the town hired a school teacher to teach the children to read. (Read the Bible- no Old Deluder)
• Education reserved for those who can pay for it, more popular in NE than in the South
• Reading and Writing needed for NE business and industry– Shipbuilding, trade, etc…
• Poor would work as an apprentice to receive training
Boston Latin School, 1635, 1st Public School
Dame Howell’s School, NJ
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Left- Horn Book
Right- NE Primer
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Female Education in Colonial America• Females educated at home
in feminine arts– Dame Schools- small private
schools that provided an education children before they were old enough to work.
– Taught by an elderly woman reading and writing and skills such as sewing.
– Poorer children attended
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• 1st College- Harvard– Used to educate Puritan Ministers
• 1st Southern College- College of William and Mary
• Colleges more numerous in the Northeast because of Calvinists/Puritan influence on education
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MA Hall, Established 1720, oldest existing building on campus
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• Used to explain uncertainty
• 1660 and after: witchcraft accusations die down
• Witch mania reflects the fears European held about the devil
• Reflects the growing conviction that only the state had the power to protect people
• Exception: Salem, 1692
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• Supposed Witches Worshiping the Devil in the Form of a Billy Goat.
• In the background other witches ride bareback on flying demons. This is one of the earliest visual conceptions of witchcraft, dating from around 1460.
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• Group of girls accused fellow villagers of witchcraft
• Trials (featuring "spectral evidence" and body searches for birthmarks) resulted in convictions of many and executions of 20 people and 2 dogs.
• Goal was restoration of the disciplined community. No confessed witches were hanged or burned.
• accusers were representatives of a traditional way of life tied to farming and the church
• accused witches were members of the rising commercial class of small shopkeepers and tradesmen
• Reaction resulted in anti-Puritan sentiment, weakening of Puritan authority, and apologies from some religious leaders
Salem Witch Trials
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Salem Witch Trials
-1692 in MA, targeted people who did not conform to society’s expectations
Royal Colony