... , only 38 survived the first winter; of the 325 who came before 1609, less than 100 remained alive in the spring of the next year. Their leader at the time, John Smith, had to befriend the local Powhatan Indians, and with the help of their 12-year-old princess, Pocahontas to obtained food from them (Murrin, 59). The Plymouth colony was no ... later paid off and the colony gained political autonomy and private ownership (Murrin, 69). In 1629 several English Puritans obtained a charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company, led by it Governor, John Winthrop and carried the charter to America, ...

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... that settled in each region effected the New England and Chesapeake colonies social development because it provided a basis of the values each region would possess. John Winthrop explained to incoming settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony that they would be a model of future settlements and must act as a "city ... be based on unity between the settlers who understood that the needs of the community were more important than the needs of the individual. John Winthrop knew that the settlers would agree, because if they did not cooperate, it would be disobeying what God wanted for the co...

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... Massachusetts the magistrate created several Sabbath laws, which regarded Sunday as the Lord's Day. In Massachusetts the Sabbath laws were enforced frequently. In the town of Salem in 1668, John Smith and Mrs. John Kitchin were fined "for frequent absenting themselves from the public worship of God on the Lord's day." Magistrate also created strict laws against Quakers and persecuted them cruelly. On ... ...

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