Ben Franklin fled Boston for Philadelphia because he found the Theocratic Government of MA, stifling. And MA was not admitted to the union until it cleaned up it's constitution and secularized the Government.
Of the 102 puritans who set foot on that piece land on Massachussets bay only 32 were radicals, known as Brownists, and extreme bra…
Ben Franklin fled Boston for Philadelphia because he found the Theocratic Government of MA, stifling. And MA was not admitted to the union until it cleaned up it's constitution and secularized the Government.
Of the 102 puritans who set foot on that piece land on Massachussets bay only 32 were radicals, known as Brownists, and extreme branch of Puritaniism, they were so intolerant that they fled to Leiden Holland, and soon wore out their welcome there, they then rented a dutch fluyt named the Mayflower and the shipped stopped at Plymouth England to pick up some 70 more puritans looking for land, not the religious radicals.
The Brownists called themselves Saints but one of them named Bradford,later Governor of MA wote in his diary they were pilgrims and the myth has stuck since. Google Brownists in en.wikipedia.com
The Brownists spread their disease as it seems all radicals easily do, and they radicalized the puritans of MA, and in the late 18th Century they sent missionaries into Virginia and the Carolina's, to spread their disease it is called the 1st Great Awakening (again check out wikipedia) and they returned in the 19th Century for the 2nd, this time to greater effect, and as an avocational genetic genealogists I have found artificacts of that disease in official records, For instance one of the most famous was Lorenzo Dow, and I can't recall how many Lorenzo Dow jones, Bryants, Farmers I have found in census records and marriage certificates.
We know these typhoid Mary's by the name Pentecostal, Evangelicals, Southern Bapists, even Methodists.
Lutherans are more or less confined to the Great Lakes states, where the Germans and Scandinavians settled., though my wife born in California, now atheist, was baptisted Lutheran and her father died three years ago a Lutheran.
Ben Franklin fled Boston for Philadelphia because he found the Theocratic Government of MA, stifling. And MA was not admitted to the union until it cleaned up it's constitution and secularized the Government.
Of the 102 puritans who set foot on that piece land on Massachussets bay only 32 were radicals, known as Brownists, and extreme branch of Puritaniism, they were so intolerant that they fled to Leiden Holland, and soon wore out their welcome there, they then rented a dutch fluyt named the Mayflower and the shipped stopped at Plymouth England to pick up some 70 more puritans looking for land, not the religious radicals.
The Brownists called themselves Saints but one of them named Bradford,later Governor of MA wote in his diary they were pilgrims and the myth has stuck since. Google Brownists in en.wikipedia.com
The Brownists spread their disease as it seems all radicals easily do, and they radicalized the puritans of MA, and in the late 18th Century they sent missionaries into Virginia and the Carolina's, to spread their disease it is called the 1st Great Awakening (again check out wikipedia) and they returned in the 19th Century for the 2nd, this time to greater effect, and as an avocational genetic genealogists I have found artificacts of that disease in official records, For instance one of the most famous was Lorenzo Dow, and I can't recall how many Lorenzo Dow jones, Bryants, Farmers I have found in census records and marriage certificates.
We know these typhoid Mary's by the name Pentecostal, Evangelicals, Southern Bapists, even Methodists.
Lutherans are more or less confined to the Great Lakes states, where the Germans and Scandinavians settled., though my wife born in California, now atheist, was baptisted Lutheran and her father died three years ago a Lutheran.