Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th Century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for ...

If not for the Wampanoags, more Pilgrims would have starved that first winter. A third group arrived in eastern Massachusetts, in 1630. Called the Puritans and led by Jonathan Winthrop ...

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England ...

The Pilgrims celebrated a harvest festival with ... These Church of England reformers came to be known as Puritans, for their insistence on further purification of established doctrine and ceremony.

But is it so? In the storybook version most of us learned in school, the Pilgrims came to America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1620. The Puritans soon followed ...

Over time, the Pilgrims who clung to Plymouth's rocky shores were absorbed into the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans believed that the Church of England ...