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The Puritan migration to New England took place from 1620 to 1640, declining sharply afterwards. The term "Great Migration" can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1]
24 maj 2017 · The Great Puritan Migration was a period in the 17th century during which English puritans migrated to New England, the Chesapeake and the West Indies. English migration to Massachusetts consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth Colony in the 1620s and between 13,000 and 21,000 emigrants who….
1 mar 2015 · The Puritans knew the Plymouth Colony experiment worked, and decided to replicate it. The Great Migration began to take off in 1630 when John Winthrop led a fleet of 11 ships to Massachusetts. Winthrop brought 800 people with him to New England; 20,000 followed him over the next 10 years.
the migration to New England resulted almost entirely from a desire to obtain religious liberty for its own sake, and a natural eagerness to escape persecution at home.
Between about 1630 and 1640, as many as 20,000 men, women and children left England for New England. Most if not all of the settlers of Lenox can trace their roots to this hearty group of emigrants.
3 sty 2024 · The Great Migration Begins Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 Volume III by Anderson,Robert Charles. Publication date 1995 Publisher New England Historic Genealogical Society Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English Volume 3 Item Size 1.9G
The Great Migration to New England, unlike the simulta-neous outpouring of Englishmen to other New World colonies, was a voluntary exodus of families and included rela-tively few indentured servants. The movement, which began around 1630, effectively ceased a dozen years later with the outbreak of the English Civil War, further distinguishing it