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14 Μαρ 2016 · The New England colonists—with the exception of Rhode Island—were predominantly Puritans, who, by and large, led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated and devoted to the study and teaching of both Scripture and the natural sciences.
12 Απρ 2021 · The earliest colonies of New England were founded between 1620-1638 by separatists and Puritans seeking to establish religious communities in which they could worship freely. Both sects had been persecuted in England and, once they were firmly established in North America, then persecuted others.
1. Sanford H. Cobb, The Rise of Religious Liberty in America (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902). This is perhaps the most thorough, widely cited, and helpful single work on the history of religious liberty in this country from the earliest colonial period to the first state constitutions adopted during and immediately after the Revolution.
The English settlers of New England intended to make religion the focus of their settlement. These first immigrants were alienated English Puritans called separatists, who had already fied England for the Netherlands because of their inability to achieve further reformation in the Church of England at home.
long before Europe had shaken loose her shackles of coerced religious conformity, the development of a fresh and more wholesome conscience brought forth by the end of the colonial period a wider freedom of religion, even in New England, than had been achieved anywhere in the Old World (p. 675).
Recently we discovered the means to construct a quite reliable and detailed statistical portrait of religion in America for 1776. There are two essential sources. The first is the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, by Charles 0.
The New England Primer provides a clear example of the importance of religion to the early Puritan colonists. It also illustrates why the literacy rate in the New England colonies far exceeded that in other areas of settlement.
