PILGRIMS AND PURITANS:
A BRIEF TIMELINE TO EXPLAIN
THE DIFFERENCE
PILGRIMS
PILGRIMS ARRIVED: 1620/
GOVERNORS: CARVER AND
BRADFORD/ PLYMOUTH COLONY
FRIENDLY WITH THE INDIANS FOR
OVER 40 YEARS/ PAID INDIANS FOR
LAND/ COMUNAL LIVING/ FOR THE
FIRST SEVEN YEARS DEMOCRATIC
SOCIETY: CONSENSUS OF THE
GOVERNED/ SEPARATED FROM THE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND/ NOT A SINGLE
CASE OF PROSECUTION OF WITCHCRAFT/
REPRESENTATION AND EQUAL
INHERITANCE/ FORERUNNER OF US
CONSTITUTION AND DEC. OF
INDEPENDENCE/ MORE TOLERANT
THAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND/
PURITANS
ARRIVED 1630/
GOVERNOR: WINTHROP/
MASSACHUSETTES BAY
COLONY/
INDIAN PROBLEMS FROM
THE OUTSET/ AUTHORITARIAN;
“PURIFIED” THE CHURCH FROM
WITHIN/ PROSECUTED AND
EXECUTED FOR WITCHCRAFT/
INTOLERANT/
GOVENOR WINTHROP
PILGRIMS
The first settlers to America were the
settlers of Jamestown, Virginia.
They arrived on May 6, 1607.
They began the Southern Colonies.
The Pilgrims came on December 26, 1620.
Originally headed for Virginia,
the Pilgrims were set off course by storms,
and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
There they began the New England colonies.
The first few months were grueling for the
Pilgrims. Half of their 102 members
perished: "of the 17 male heads of
families, ten died during the first
infection"; of the 17 wives, only
three were left after three months.
PURITANS
Seeking religious freedom,
the Puritans began arriving in America
in 1624. They formed the Massachusetts
Bay Company and got permission from
King Charles I to build a colony in New England.
The following year, the company sent
1000 colonists and 17 ships. Each family
in this group was instructed to bring with
them an 18 months supply of food.
Because of this, they were much better
prepared than any of the former colonists.
They settled in Massachusetts Bay
and elected John Winthrop to lead the
new colony. They called their first
settlement Boston. The Middle Colonies
grew between the 1600s and 1700s
when thousands more people from
Europe came to find a new way of
life in America.
PILGRIM AND PURITAN GRANDMOTHERS
IN OUR FAMILY TREE
FRANCIS BLOSSOM (my 11th GGM):
In 1623 Francis left London, and sailed
to America on the ship, Anne.
With her she brought her young son, James,
and they were accompanied by about 60
additional passengers. She traveled to
America to join her husband, William Palmer
who arrived in America two years earlier,
aboard the Fortune, which is the second
ship to come to America.
(The Mayflower, being the first).
SARAH BENNETT born abt 1611
d: Mar: 1647 Saybrook, NL, CT (9th GGM)
MARY RANDALL b: 1642 d: 1712 Weymouth, MA (10GGM)
DEBORAH PALMER b: 1642 d: aft 1727 Saybrook, CT (9GGM)
MARY NORTH b: 1643 Ipswitch, MA (9GGM)
MEHITABLE THOMPSON b: 1642 d: 1700 Mendon, MA (10GGM)
MARY CHAMPION b: 1651 – 1732 Lyme, CT (8GGM)
MARY WELLMAN b: abt 1655 “of” Norwich, CT (9GGM)
HANNAH JONES b: 1668 Weathersfield, CT (8GGM)
MEHITABLE HAYWARD b: 1670 Fairfield, MA (9GGM)
MARY BECKWITH b: 1677 Middlesex, CT,
d: 1672 East Haddam, CT (7GGM)
MARTHA MOORE b: 1680 Norwich, CT (8GGM)
DEBORAH DEWOLF b: 1690 Lyme, CT (7GGM)
MARY BIRCHARD died: 1692 New London, CT ((GGM)
ELIZABETH PARKER b: bef 1696 Goochland, VA (8GGM)
ELIZABETH STAPLES b: abt 1697 Mendon, MA (8GGM)
ELIZABETH FORD b: abt 1697 poss NC (8GGM)
SARAH WOODMAN b: abt 1620 “of” Mendon, MA
JOANNA ROCKWOOD b: 1667 MA (9GGM)
JOANNA FORD b: 1641 MA (10 GGM)
MEHITABLE THOMPSON b:1644 MA (10GGM)
SARAH BALDWIN d: 1690 MA (10th GGM)
MARY ELIZABETH LYNN d: abt 1692 CT
JANE CURTIS d: abt 1668 CT (9GGM)
ELIZABETH RICE d: 1690 MA (11 GGM)
ELIZABETH FROST d: 1647 MA (12 GGM)
ELIZABETH SPENCER (Mar: 1649)
1st settler of Lyme, CT (10 GGM)
PILGRIM AND PURITAN GRANDMOTHERS
WHOSE SURNAMES ARE UNKNOWN
MRS. EXPERIENCE COOKE abt 1628-abt 1664 Weymouth, MA
MRS. JOANNA ROCKETT b: 1641 Mendon, MA
MRS. ELIZABETH ATKINSON b: abt 1663 “of” Henrico, VA
MRS. ELIZABETH PARKER b: bef 1673 “of” Henrico, VA
MRS. MARY PARKER b: abt 1642 “of” Charles City, VA
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
There is a Court Record
( CT Colony Records 15 Jun 1659
of Hartford Quarter Court of
05 Sep 1661)
which tells of an indictment in
Lyme, Ct of one Nicholas
Jennings of Bride
Plaine who was arrested and
charged with Witchcraft in;
causing the death of the wife
of Regnold Marvin, and also the
death of a daughter of Balthazar
DeWolf, by
"bewitching them both to death".
