... the company. Accordingly, a small party of leading Puritans met at Cambridge in august 1612 adopted the "Cambridge Agreement" to migrate to Massachusetts, on condition that the charter and seat of government be transferred thither. The Massachusetts Bay Company agreed, and John Winthrop a gentleman of wealth and ... to establish a religious community with freedom of conscience, not for all, but for those who expressed these established document. And the religious test for freeman ship became a safeguard by which they secured the future for which they had sacrificed so much. The matter o...

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