Quakers believed that specific people were good unlike puritans. -teenager
She's one of the Boston Martyrs, executed by hanging for practicing the Quaker religion in a Puritan colony.
Some famous Puritan women include Anne Hutchinson, a religious leader in Massachusetts Bay Colony who challenged Puritan beliefs, Anne Bradstreet, a prominent poet of the colonial era, and Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was executed for her beliefs in Massachusetts.
Actually, no one person brought the Puritan religion to America. The pilgrims that we all hear about coming over on the May-Flower carried the Puritan religion with them.
There were many religions, here are a couple: Quaker, Puritan, Baptist, Anglicans, Jewish, Catholic, and Congregationalists.
The Puritan and Quaker movements started in England because they wanted to break away from the Church of England. These two groups came to America for religious freedom, and their movements spread further in this New World.
The main religions in colonial America include... Christianity Protestant Judism Puritan Quaker and Separatist
Mary Dyer lived in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. She violated a rule forbidding Quakers from living in the colony. Mary was a Puritan, but converted and became a Quaker. As a result of violating the law, she was hanged. She is famous for being one of the "Boston Martyrs."
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No, William Penn was not a Puritan. He was a Quaker and the founder of Pennsylvania, establishing the colony as a place for religious freedom and tolerance. Penn's beliefs aligned more closely with the teachings of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, rather than Puritanism.
William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania. He had no connection to the Puritans. Pennsylvania was established as a place where people were free to follow the dictates of their conscience. Penn himself was a Quaker.
Mary Dyer was a women in Colonial times who Expressed Quaker beliefs in a Puritan Colony. That means that she only worshiped God not the King.