1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Settlement
of New England
Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. The Mayflower

3. Pilgrims?
vs.
Puritans?

4. Sources of Puritan Migration

5. William Bradford

6. The Mayflower Compact November 11, 1620

7. Covenant Theology “Covenant of Grace”: “Social Covenant”:
between Puritan communities and God.
“Social Covenant”:
Between members of Puritan communities with each other.
Required mutual watchfulness.
No toleration of deviance or disorder.
No privacy.

8. We shall be as a city on a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
John Winthrop
We shall be as a city on a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.

9. Colonizing New England

10. Characteristics of New England Settlements
Low mortality  average life expectancy was 70 years of age.
Many extended families.
Average 6 children per family.
Average age at marriage:
Women – 22 years old
Men – 27 years old.

11. Patriarchy
Authoritarian male father figures controlled each household.
Patriarchal ministers and magistrates controlled church congregations and household patriarchs.

12. Land Division in Sudbury, MA: 1639-1656

13. Puritan “Rebels” Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Religious toleration.
Separation of church and state.
Threatened patriarchal control.
Antinomialism [direct revelation]

14. Southern New England Indian Tribes, 1636

15. A Pequot Village Destroyed, 1637

16. The Pequot Wars:

17. Population of the New England Colonies

18. Population Comparisons: New England v. the Chesapeake

19. New England Colonies, 1650