The Puritans at Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630, Illuminated Settlement, Foundational Community, Essential, Interconnected.
“An even greater contribution to the American population, in sheer numbers, began with the Puritans, who believed in purifying the established church, a decade after the voyage of the Mayflower. In 1630, seventeen ships left England for America. The most famous of these was the Arabella, on which the Puritan leader John Winthrop sailed. Mainly stemming from the area of East Anglia in England, the Puritans left during a time when Archbishop William Laud was attempting to eliminate Puritan influences from the Church of England and King Charles I was attempting to rule without calling Parliament into session. The decade of the 1630’s, leading up to the English Civil War (1642-1651), was a time of economic depression, as well as a period in which the Puritans were out of favor in the English church and state.”
~ Carl L. Bankston III, “History of immigration, 1620-1783”, (11-01-2012)
Addendum: Here is an excellent supplementary essay written by Walker Haynes, which Compares the Land Acquisition of Plymouth & Massachusetts Bay. It is an excellent Primer on how The Pilgrims often differed in how ‘One ought to Settle the Land.’
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1.19 The Divine Right to Occupy the Land