Upon landing on Cape Cod, the Pilgrims "found water and refreshed themselves, being the first New England water they drunk of, and was now in their great thirst as pleasant unto them as wine or beer had been in foretimes." From this description, what do you take to have been especially virtuous or delicious about the water? Try to account for Bradford's high praise for the water.
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The official name for the type of people that settled in the New England Colonies were the Separatist Puritans, but we know them better as the Pilgrims. They left England to gain religious freedom for themselves and their families.
Holland, by way of England
The Pilgrims were called Separatists because they left the Church of England. Because of this, the Pilgrims were persecuted in England and came to the New World for religious reasons.
New England
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