cider, potatoes, or butter. There was no domestic cattle for dairy products, and the newly-discovered potato was still considered by many Europeans to be poisonous. But the feast did include fish,
George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789,although some were opposed to it.There was discord among the colonies,many feeling the hardships of a few Pilgrims did not warrant a national holiday.And later,President Thomas Jefferson scoffed at the idea of having a day of ...
The Mayflower had two groups of Pilgrims on board as it set sail from England in August 1620: the loyalists who pledged continued loyalty to King Charles I and the Church of England; and the separatists, or Puritans, who sailed to the Americas to gain religious freedom without any fear of...
Many of those Puritans’ descendants still see the world much as their ancestors did, though their great enemy is no longer godless papists and savages but depraved liberalism, or at the conspiracy theorist extreme, some differently titled ism that in practice looks and sounds an awful ...
and Morocco trafficked western European girls and young women. The godly Puritans also shamefully sold American Indians to the Barbary Pirates as slaves. European rulers paid tribute to the Barbary Pirates to protect their females from being taken captive. Thomas Jefferson, as president and as a go...
to become a priest in the Anglican Communion. Many Chinese do not believe Christianity is an Eastern religion and consider it to be a Western religion. I think it is important to recognize those Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ who have made profound contributions to the Kingdom. I am...
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The Puritans considered it a sin to gamble, but by the 17th century, it was a well-established feature of colonial life. People rolled dice to win ships, lands, and money. The Virginia Company even ran a lottery to fund its fleet of ships to the colony. When states adopt a lottery, ...
InMassachusetts,Puritan delegates controlled the legislature,insisting thatonly Puritans be allowed to vote. Various pastors thought thatvoting should be extended to anyone who was a Christian.These pastors led their congregations to leave and found other communities inNew...
the 1660s. They were predominantly Puritans‚ who by and large‚ led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated & devoted to study of both scripture and the natural science. The New England laws assumed that citizens who stayed away from conventional religious customs were a ...