[Sca-cooks] Puritans and Pilgrims

[johnna holloway]

There are a number of differences between
Puritans and Pilgrims.

To summarize as given by 1620 Society website
at http://www.sail1620.org/m2k/history/pnotp.htm
(This is given as a comparison chart on the website
so I've had to retype it. )

PILGRIMS
Arrived 1620 under Governors Carver and Bradford.
Founded Plymouth Colony. Friendly with Indians for
40 years. Paid Indians for land. Communal living
for the first 7 years. Seized Indian lands.
Democratic, consensus of the governed. Separated
from the Church of England. Not a single prosecution
of witchcraft.Representation and equal inheritance.
Forerunner of US Constitution & Declaration of
Independence.
More tolerant than the Church of  England.


Puritans
Arrived 1630 under Governor Winthrop,founding the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. Indian problems from the outset.
Seized Indian lands. Individual profit from the
outset.
Authoritarian. "Purified" the Church from within.
Prosecuted and executed for witchcraft. Nothing to
compare.                                                   Intolerant.

If you will note on that website, the 1620 group went so
far as to even draft a proclamation saying that the Pilgrims
weren't Puritans back in 1960.
See also: http://www.gospelcom.net/ligonier/tt/tt-11-96/logan.html
for another discussion or run a google search
on (pilgrams, puritans, differences) for a number
of discussions.

Johnna Holloway Johnnae llyn Lewis