Between 1630 and 1640, approximately 20,000 Puritans emigrated from England to the New World, primarily settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This migration, often referred to as the Great Migration, was driven by religious persecution and the desire for a community where they could practice their faith freely. The influx significantly shaped the cultural and social landscape of early New England.
They wanted religious freedom
One such settler was a puritan minister named Thomas Hooker.
Because of economic, political, and religious problems in England it led to the Great Migration. Between 1629 and 1640 many thousands of English men, women, and children left England. More than 40,000 of these people moved to English colonies in New England and the Caribbean. In 1629, Charles granted a group of Puritans and merchants a charter to settle in New England. They formed the Massachusets Bay CompanyIn 1630 a fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonists left England for Massachusetts to seek religious freedom. They were led by John Winthrop. The Puritans believed that they had made a covenant, or promise, with God to build an ideal Christian Community.
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, including English Calvinists. Puritans felt that the English Reformation had not gone far enough, and that the Church of England was still too tolerant of practices which they associated with the Catholic Church. Puritans were fundamentally anti-Catholic and felt that the Church of England was still too close to Catholicism and needed to be reformed further. Puritans were unable to have these reforms implemented and most left the Church of England and many emigrated overseas. Particularly in the years after 1630, Puritans left for America, supporting the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other settlements.
The Puritans left the country of England to found three colonies in the New England of North America: Plymouth in 1620 and Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, both located in Massachusetts, and the Connecticut Colony in 1636.
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The Puritans left England (old England, that is) for New England in America in order to worship God in the manner they believed was correct.
They left for the charter of privileges.
do to the fact they wanted the right to speak