where were the purtians origanally from?

Question

the purtians/pilgrims

Answer 1

England.

Answer 2

England

Answer 3

England

Answer 4

Most were English citizens who fled to Holland to escape religious persecution. When their children started to pick up the ways of the "worldly" Dutch, they desired another home, so set out for America in ships. The Speedwell, full of supplies and people, didn't make it, so the cargo was transferred onto the Mayflower.

Answer 5

They came from England. They wanted to separated from the "Church of England" and have freedom of religion because the King mandated the religion. They wanted purity of worship and of doctrine.

Answer 6

The simplest answer is -- the town of Scrooby in the county of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands region of England.

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DETAILS

The small group we now call "the Pilgrims", who settled in "Plimouth" in 1620, were one particular type of "Puritans" -- SEPARATISTS who, unlike the later Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I suspect you already knew that they came from "England". But, in fact, this group (and for that matter the later Puritan settlers) came from one specific REGION of England, one that had been very much affected by the Reformation. (For that matter, many "Lollards" -- followers of John Wycliffe-- had been involved in the "pre-Reformation" beginning in the 14th century.)

This particular group originated in the county of Nottinghamshire, in the Midlands region of England. (The traditional county seat was Nottingham, and the famous "Sherwood Forest" was nearby.) In particular, the separatist congregations haled from the towns of Scrooby and nearly Babworth. The links below will tell you a little bit more about this region, and the early history of this group, through their flight to Holland (when persecution of Separatists broke out at the accesision of King James I) and from Leyden to Massachusetts. (Note that their departure from Holland seems to have been motivated chiefly by economic hardship.)

on the leaders:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mosmd/leaders.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims#Separatists_in_Scrooby

the places:
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/religion.php
http://www.visitnottingham.com/exec/107129/2772
http://www.pilgrimfathers.visitnottingham.com/

If you are interested in the CULTURE of these people, and of those Puritans in nearby parts of England who later migrated to New England, check out the first section in David Hackett Fischer's book *Albion's Seed*. (This is a fascinating study of the FOUR major colonial migrations from the British Isles to North America, how each centered in one region of Britain, and how the distinctive "folkways" of that region continued in the new region, some to this day!-- from speech/accent to ideas about sex, family life, death. . . to ways of building and dressing.)

Answer 7

They left England to escape religious persecution there.

Answer 8

Purtiania, of course.
It's near Englandia.
They left the land of their birth in search of dictionaries and teachers, who were said to dwell in the mythical Isle of Amwreckia.

Answer 9

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