HIS 315K Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Starving Time, Headright, Gallows
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Pilgrim definition: one who journeys in foreign lands; wayfarer, one who travels to a shrine or holy place as a devotee, (capitalized): one of the english puritan colonists settling at. Separatists: radical protestants, persecuted by roman catholics in england, so moved to holland (dutch land, wanted offspring to grow up english, so they were granted a charter by. John smith: of the jamestown colony- found plymouth rock, named the surrounding area new england, then sailed back to jamestown (this. Mayflower puritans transported english separatists (pilgrims) from a site near plymouth, Colony: puritans, boston: fully developed with surrounding settlements by. Puritan theology (17th century version: congregational, church membership required elect, attendance of church required by law, sermon vs. liturgy, aka calvinists (based on the works of john calvin, french lawyer: at 26, he wrote the institutes of christian. Behavior: working to purify the church from the vestiges of roman catholicism, seemed to be over-zealous in their earnestness.
