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To: dp0622
The progenitors of my great-great-great grandfather's cousins came over with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. David Morton. They were refugees from the slaughter of non-conformists by Mary Stuart's Papist minions as well as by her father's proto-Anglican Royalists. They were also apart from, and reviled by, Cromwell's Puritans,

This group known as Pilgrims were just a small assembly of Christians meeting in Scrooby, England, refusing to follow the government-sponsored priesthood. They met together apart from organized religion to follow Christ by seeking His religion of the Bible, and living as God-fearing Christians looking out for each other.

They were forced out of England, and migrated to the Netherlands, then a powerful Protestant nation. There they maintained their church fellowship for many years under hardship, but were not persecuted as in England, until they returned to Plymouth and set out for the New World to be free of statist religion. David Morton was with them.

They most certainly believed in separation of the state and religion functions.

29 posted on 10/11/2016 5:46:29 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1

That’s the one thing that I can’t do on FR that i wish i could.

Ask about 50 questions pertaining to the VERY interesting post you sent.

So many questions that it can’t be done in a typing conversation.

Now I have to look every group and name up on wikipedia!
:)

You have a Great heritage in this country. If God shows his mercy I will be the second of many, many generations of our family in America.

We Italians are kind of in the middle of the settlers and the hispanics.

We can’t trace our roots that far back nor do we have 1st generation flooding over.

We are solidly American and my uncles and father (who was here only maybe 18 years before world war II started) fought for America, of course, and were damned proud.


30 posted on 10/11/2016 5:59:37 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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