HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - Island Company, Triangular Trade, Theocracy
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History lecture #8: government and society in new england: the massachusetts bay company, families and migration. The church of england didn"t want a bunch of puritans leaving england and founding their own colony. Made people migrating on boats swear that they conformed to the. List of names of people going to virginia made it difficult to see how they are related to each other. Different to list of names of people going to boston two months earlier. Instead of younger, isolated individuals, there are established family units. Even the servants came as part of households already. Made a big difference in familial and governmental life in new. People in new england were not people with no means; they invested in. They were not poor people seeking jobs. They had means and left because they wanted to escape religious persecution: villages and farms. Settlers in new england began building villages and farms to replicate what they were like in england.