New England Colonies Report
By Brandon Waak
The Colonists town
The colonists town had a lot of buildings in their town. They had 2 fields, church, mill, meeting house, houses, general store, cooper, blacksmith, common, well, cobbler, ministers house, school,
The Meetinghouse
The meeting house was in the center of the village. on Sundays They talked for 2 hours and then they went back to the church and talked about religion for several more hours.
Home and farm life
In a puritan village in the center of it there was a huge fireplace that cooked a lot of things. Women and girls spent a long time in the house getting food cooked and on the table for the men. They had really large farm fields.
A puritan Village
At the center of each puritan village was a common. The common was used for religion. By the church was a meetinghouse. Other buildings were on the side of the meetinghouse.
The Massachusetts Bay colony
In 1630 There were more than 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under the government. In 1629 The Massachusetts bay company had been obtained by king Charles a charter empowering the company to trade with them.
John Winthorp
John Winthrop was born on January 12 1587, and he died on March 26 1649. He had a child named Henry Winthrop. He was a governor for 20 years. He was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, and the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England.
Roger Williams
Roger Williams was born on December 21, 1603 and he died march 1683. He was a puritan, an English reformed theologian and later a reformed Baptist. He was a expelled by the puritan leaders because they thought that he was spreading new and dangerous ideas.
Ann Hutchinson
Ann Hutchinson was born on July 20 1591nin Alford, United
Kingdom. and she died on August 1643 and in New Netherlands United States.
her parents were Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden. Her spouse was William
Hutchinson. Her mother had 15 children plus her to.