![]() Their aim-according to John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay-was to create a model of reformed Protestantism, a “city upon a hill,” a new English Israel. Unlike the exodus of young men to the Chesapeake colonies, these migrants were families with young children and their university-trained ministers. “A City upon a Hill”Ī much larger group of English Puritans left England in the 1630s, establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, the Connecticut Colony, and Rhode Island. These Puritans, unlike the Separatists, hoped to serve as a “city upon a hill”. ![]() ![]() The second wave of English Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, and Rhode Island. They hoped to bring about the reform of theocratic Protestantism throughout the English Empire.Īfter the arrival of the original Separatist “pilgrims” in 1620, a second, larger group of English Puritans emigrated to New England.
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