HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joint-Stock Company, Entrust, Massachusetts Bay Colony
14 Oct 2016
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Massachusetts bay company, 1629: personal accounting a. massachusetts bay colony, 1630, living in this world 1. Separatists: just government, king charles i (1625 - 1649) iii. Great and general court: arminian a. freeman, parliament 1. Winthrop marriages (at 17 to mary forth, 10 months later, a father; 6 children in 10 years, at about 28 to thomasine clopton, at 30 to margaret tyndale) At some point during first marriage, winthrop caught puritan fever. One level, purify the church of england. Remove everything not explicitly in bible: no hierarchy of clergy -- priests, ect; no special clothing; ministers were teachers; marriage was not a sacrament. # once it took hold, more than just the relationship to the church of england or the way the church operated. Often they kept diaries to keep close account of themselves and their behavior. Helped them to think about their lives, their relationship to god. Why he behaved or made the choices that he did.
