The daily life of puritans was very focused on how to stay away from sin and please God. Every member of the house was doing chores. The men of the household did the hunting and the planting, while the woman did the sewing, preserved vegetables, and did the cooking. The towns believed highly in a covenant therefore gave the power to the adult males who would elect officers to the general court. In the middle of the community was the Puritan church. This was also known as the meeting house. Meetings were held here to decide laws, fees for laborers, price for ale, and to assigned people to certain tasks for the community. Church services were held here every Sunday all day long and, by law, everyone had to attend. Some churches locked the doors so no one could leave. One who spoke out or acted wrongly would be punished in front of all. Games in this society were considered sin and hard work was emphasized. The community helped each family if their crops failed, or if there was a field fire. Neighbors also helped others build barns or farm equipment.

The colors were black, brown, and the eternal indigo. Clothing lines were harsh and severe and not at all form fitting. The one thing that made Puritan clothing memorable were the hats with what looked to be a buckle and the white bodice collars that both men and women wore.

The Puritans got most of their food from hunting or fishing. They also grew many different crops like corn and wheat to make an assortment of food that they used to survive through the first few hard winters and they learned to use their resourced better through those hard times.

The Puritans were staunch believers of the Holy Bible and followed the doctrines as guidelines for leading a pious life. They were strong believers of Calvinism which loosely preaches that the consequences of our actions in this mortal world decides the fate of our souls which could be subjected to either damnation or salvation. Their main principles relied on the ideas of free-will and sanctity of the human soul.

Order in the family, then, fundamentally structured Puritan belief. The essence of social order lay in the authority of husband over wife, parents over children, and masters over servants in the family.

Puritans did not believe in the market or market forces. They imposed a rigid system of wage and price controls to insure that people did not unfairly profit from goods and services. To make an excessive profit was to steal, and so they regulated what one could and could not charge. When a shortage of hired help put upward pressure on wages, the Puritan authorities set a wage of 2 shillings a day. All of their disputes with each other were settled at the church which also served as their meeting place and court house.

The role Puritan women played by the 16th or 17th century was to raise their kids right and teach them them moral values. They would be taught about their agreement with God and stories and lessons of the bible. They would cook, clean, and sew. These things were expected by Puritan women, but if they didn't do what they were supposed to do, they would be casted out of the society. Puritan women were highly obedient to their husbands and were very dutiful tot their house work. Many women were also sentenced to death because they were thought to be witches.

Puritans had many superstitious beliefs but the biggest one that they gave into was their belief in witchcraft. They thought that certain women in the town were witches and would put them through trials where either way they would die but they wouldn’t find out if they are witches until they did. Everyone in the town was paranoid that witches were among them and they did everything they could to dispose of them.

There were 2 major roles of the Puritan Ministers. It was their duty to be the interpreter of Scripture and to be the "peacemaker”. They maintained peace among the parishioners as well as assuring the individual had achieved peace with his brothers before taking communion. Puritanism was the epitome of a "works" based faith, and as such led to many persecutions of it's own members as well as some outside that denomination.