king philip's war Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/king-philips-war Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Praying Towns http://toursmaps.com/praying-towns.html http://toursmaps.com/praying-towns.html#respond Sun, 08 May 2016 20:10:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203829 The term praying towns generally refers to Christian Native American villages set up by the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1651 and 1674, although similar settlements were also created in the seventeenth century by the French in Canada and by native converts on Martha’s Vineyard and in New Plymouth during the same period. Since Europeans believed in a close connection between church and state, those efforts brought colonial political influence along with the Gospel. In addition, missionaries believed that natives needed to be civilized as well as Christianized and created the mission towns for that purpose. Puritan leaders in Massachusetts believed

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