1. New England Way

• Pilgrim myths and Puritan realities
• John Winthrop, "city upon a hill", conformity
  
• more like Cromwell than the Scrooby Manor Pilgrims
• not Laud's Anglicans, or Fox's Quakers
  

2. Covenant theology

• John Cotton, "practice of piety", Puritan ethic
  
• not Roger Williams, Ann Hutchinson
  

3. self-government

• General Court of freemen, assistants, deputies
  
• Boston "hive", Old North Church, Harvard
  

4. merchants

• shops, furs, codfish, triangular trade
  
• Robert Keayne, Moses Marcy
  

5. towns

• Concord, Dedham, Fairbanks house 1636
  
• selectmen, precincts, schools
  

6. social stability

• order, hierarchy, deference
  
• family, Halfway covenant
  

Links:

• Pilgrim Museum in Leiden
• Mayflower II reconstruction at Plymouth Bay
• Plimouth Plantation 3 miles south of Bay
• Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth MA
• Witchcraft in Salem Village from the Danvers Archival Center
• Digital Archive of American Architecture from Boston College
• Pequot War
• maps of MA Bay - 2 | MA-CT-RI | Colonization p18
• latest GOES8 infrared