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To: Zack Nguyen
the strict Sabbath-keeping of the Puritans.

Religious observance was ordained by statute.

I'm not trying to be pedantic,but Colonial History is my "thing", they are portraying Pilgrims,ie Plymouth (Plimoth) settlers.

They were not all "Puritans" in the strict sense of the word, they would be more aptly described as "Sepertarists"and not all settlers were there for religious reasons.

Puritans settled Boston,later on and would in time overshadow and absorb the Plimoth colony.

24 posted on 05/18/2004 8:08:25 AM PDT by Redcoat LI
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To: Redcoat LI

Thanks for the info!


74 posted on 05/18/2004 12:02:18 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Redcoat LI

True.

I love colonial history as well, though the Puritans are my big interest; not too interested in the Pilgrims.


94 posted on 05/18/2004 10:20:30 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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