The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths

The Pilgrims and Puritans, whose migration to the New World marks the beginning of permanent settlement in New England, were children of the same age as the enterprising and adventurous pioneers of England in Virginia, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. It was the age in which the foundations of the British Empire were being laid in the Western Continent. The «spacious times of great Elizabeth» had passed, but the new national spirit born of those times stirred within the English people. The Kingdom ha