PURITANS ARRIVAL IN AMERICA.

Farther north of Jamestown around the Massachusetts Bay,
came a different breed of settler austere, rigorous Puritans
whose inflexible ideology would soon begin to temper fire of the Virginians.
Their literary counterpart was the Word of God himself, the Bible.

The Pilgrims who emigrated to Plymouth came from all over England.
Many of these first New Englanders originated in the South and East.
But as the place names like Cambridge, Bedford and Boston, Braintree and Lincoln
suggest that the largest group came from the Eastern counties.
The flat cold fens of East Anglia, the Puritan stronghold.