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Massachusetts Bay Colony  1630 Group Members: Sasha Nizhnik,Richie Melendi,Natalie Aquino, Keshon Suthakaran, Jasmine Mao __Links: __ http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/us/massachusetts-history.html http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/colonialamerica/p/masscolony.htm []

Puritans: the Puritans are settlers from England __Questions : __ 1. Religion was important to the Puritans because they believed only the "elect" would have a seat in heaven. So to be part of the elect they had to practice their religion to the fullest. 2.The Puritans were mostly educated in their own households. Also the boys would have been taught more than the girls. 3.Colonists purchased one slave which made a better profit, while a worker had to be paid every day, making the profit lower. The slaves they obtained were theirs until it died or ran away.





**__ Experiencia: 2 February: 1606 __** Worldly cares though not in any gross manner outwardly, yet secretly, together with a secret desire after pleasures and itching after liberty and unlawful delights, had brought me to wax weary of good duties and so to forsake my first love, whence came much trouble and danger. Then in that time, having not perfect peace with God, but through the persuasion of the enemy, distrustfulness began to arise, when as the Lord sent but a small trial, my wife being taken with a fit of an ague, myself being not prepared with a peaceable conscience, it did much harm me, whereupon I promised to be prepared better. Being in this trouble I was wholly unable to raise up my self, neither could I pray a great while, yet at length I desired the Lord and he heard me, so as upon the confession of my sins, which I did with much comfort, I found mercy and grace to amende. In that week that my wife was delivered, by reason of the present occasion and of an ague which I had taken, gave myself to negligence and idleness which I could not shake off a good while after: it also brought with it many other sins as caring for this world etc., and one morning a great fit of impatience, for matter betwixt my wife and my mother, which I pray God forgive me. Where there is not a reverent trembling at the committing of small sins, and those but in thought or word, there is no fear of God, and where there is no fear there is no faith; therefore mark this. It is wonderful how the omission of the least duty, or commission of evil, will quench grace and estrange us from the love of God. ~Excerpt from Experiencia John Withrop