Not agreeing with the Pilgrims either, Williams became a preacher in Salem, but was eventually banned from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a whole for his religious beliefs. Feeling old?5 of the ...

For settlers of European extraction to make good their deeds in the Bay Colony, they had to build ... a minister to their new community. Massachusetts was a hybrid, a democratic theocracy. Although ...

Not agreeing with the Pilgrims either, Williams became a preacher in Salem, but was eventually banned from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a whole for his religious beliefs. Feeling old? 5 of the ...

The first two great American poets were both women. Neither of them was named Emily Dickinson, who came later. And one of ...

Like other cities within English-held Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem was peopled by Puritan settlers ... fueling already intense personal rivalries between villagers and their religious and ...

The broad consensus is that many species are sentient. By Marjorie Hecht Humans have had relationships with their pets for ...

There is also a religious argument that a basic difference exists ... first country to pass a law protecting animals from ...

In 1635, Rhode Island founder Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident.

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Abandoned to their fate, these jaw-dropping pictures show just how fragile our dwellings really are when pitched against the ...

In Massachusetts Bay Colony the first execution was in 1630 ... especially the Congregationalists and Presbyterians who could be called the religious establishment of the time.