HIST 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rebecca Nurse, Jonathan Corwin, Begging
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Plymouth and massachusetts bay merged in 1691. Winthrop (d. 1649) and most of founding generation have died. Increased trade, population, growing split between merchants and farmers, some new arrivals come to ne more for economic opportunity than puritan utopianism. Refuse to bow, kneel, or remove hats out of respect to person of higher rank. Colony had previously executed quakers who refused to leave. Quaker preacher george keith and followers causing trouble after 1688 toleration act in. England is at war with france as a result of the glorious revolution of 1688. Louis xiv supported james ii vs william and mary. French and native american allies (wabanaki confederacy) launch bloody raids on outlying. Puritans" relations w/ most tribes in ne had soured. King philip"s war (1675-78) (led by metacom, son of wampanoag chief massasoit) Bloody war in which half of the puritan towns in ne attacked and 10% of men of military age died ndian raids.
