Puritans had very strong beliefs and ideas and their aspirations for a better life was important in New England. Aspirations of the Puritans began with their wanting to fully de-Catholicize England and the Separatists, who were a group of extreme Puritans, vowed to break away from the C

hurch of England. Their reasons for this was because of the slow process of the Protestant Reformation and the fact that “saints” had to share pews and communion rails with “the damned.” After leaving England to go to Holland, they once again left. This time Puritans sailed to New England where lived as purified Protestant Englishman and women. In New England these Pilgrims settled in Massachusetts Bay and under the leadership of John Winthrop, a well-to-do pillar of English society, Massachusetts became the biggest and most influential of the New England outposts. “A successful attorney and manor lord in England, Winthrop eagerly accepted the offer to become governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, believing that he had a calling from God to lead a new religious experiment.” (Bailey, p.44) Winthrop also declared “We shall become a city upon a hill, a beacon to humanity.” (Winthrop in Bailey, p.44) Anther important aspiration was the idea that the purpose of government was solely based to enforce God’s laws, which applied to both believers and nonbelievers. Everyone paid taxes for the supporting of the

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