american quakers Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/american-quakers Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 American Puritanism http://toursmaps.com/american-puritanism.html http://toursmaps.com/american-puritanism.html#respond Sun, 08 May 2016 08:04:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203871 The first group of Puritans, or Pilgrims, landed in Plymouth (modern-day Massachusetts) on December 20, 1620, and established the Plymouth Colony in New England. Upon landing, forty-one persons composed The Mayflower Compact, which was a religious and social covenant that ordered religious and political life in the Plymouth. William Brewster acted as their ruling elder and teacher, William Bradford as their governor, and Miles Standish as their military leader. That year, the harsh winter killed half of the original group. This group of Puritans is known as the separatists, or independents, because they separated from the Church of England. They

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