Puritanism was one of the strictest religious groups that were in the New World, yet still numerous the Puritan religion was more a thing of the past that a singular concrete reason. I feel people try to create reasons for change to occur even if no reason was evident. From the beginning our country has been a melting pot of ethnicities, religions, and beliefs. Some are going to slip through the cracks, so to speak, and slowly deteriorate to little or nothing. Granted there is proof that certain elements did decay at the religion, I personally feel it was more of time related extinction than anything else.
John Smith was on the east coast of the Americas around the early 1600’s, being the first English expedition Smith was able to document what he exactly saw “A people so tractable, as the Indians are, would long ere this have been quietly possessed, to the satisfaction of the adventures and the eternizing of the memory of those affected by it” (McMichael 34). From the first day a settler walked onto the shore the country has been constantly changing, groups were disappearing in our country before it was out country! Time can wear down all things and it is a valid possibility that the Puritans time simply ran out.
It is quite ironic that a movement to bring Puritans into the Massachusetts Bay colony could of aided its downfall. John Winthrop was a proud Puritan who knew that salvation was to be found in the Bay colony area, he surrounded his group and declared their new city would be the ‘’City on the Hill” (McMichael 66). This Idea took root in the colonies, eventually leading to more change throughout the nation. The Manifest destiny stemmed from this ideology, splitting up all of those who felt in was their calling to find their “City on a Hill”
Anne Bradstreet was a sign of the times for the Puritans, a woman so talented was almost lost to the world because