He also began a 30-year period in which the former Puritan colony had only Catholic governors in office.

Her subsequent behaviour would scandalize the Puritan colony.

Eventually the Puritan colonies found they could no longer defend themselves against continuing Indian violence, which the French particularly used in their conflicts with England.

Harvard at first focused on training young men for the ministry, and won general support from the Puritan colonies.

Although this religious impact was felt most strongly in Puritan colonies, similar ideas were evident among other colonists as well.

The conservative leaders of the Puritan colonies were alarmed by what they saw as their heretical religious views.

In the early years of the Commonwealth, there was a pamphlet war on whether England should model itself after its Puritan colonies.

Its first European settlers were members of a Puritan colony established in 1720, which was the first permanent settlement of its type.

Three years after its publication (1681), it was reprinted in colonial America, and was widely read in the Puritan colonies.

The women who emigrated were critical agents in the success of the establishment and maintenance of the Puritan colonies in North America.