Thread: The story of thanks giving!

Originally Posted by icedog

, I used the word "Swill" as a tribute to your keen editorial abilities.

You and half of SRP Think my opinion is swill! Nothing new here!

Originally Posted by JMS

You and half of SRP Think my opinion is swill! Nothing new here!

Not true! I used the word because you used the word and I wanted to emulate thee.

Originally Posted by icedog

Not true! I used the word because you used the word and I wanted to emulate thee.

Thees and thous will get thee nowhere!

It's interesting that the Puritans fled England due to religious persecution, and yet, ironically, they were one of the most intolerant groups when it came to others religious beliefs.

While Boston was founded by Puritan settlers under the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the charter was revoked in 1684 and Massachusetts came under direct British control:

"Although unused to trans-Atlantic interference in their affairs, Bostonians nevertheless enjoyed a flowering of thought and culture never allowed during the years of strict Puritan dominance. As it developed into a major colonial center, Boston was the site of the calling of the nation's first Grand Jury in 1635; the opening of the nation's oldest school, the Boston Latin School, in 1635; the building of the first post office in 1639; the chartering of the colonies' first bank in 1674; the publication of the nation's oldest newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, banned after one issue in 1690; and the publishing of the nation's first long-running newspaper, the Boston News-Letter, in 1704. By 1750, Boston's population was 15,000 people."
- The Bostonian Society

In Maryland, in 1649, the Assembly passed a law promoting religious tolerance. It promoted the view to the colonists that the best policy was to keep criticisms of others' faiths to themselves, and even levied fines on people who openly denounced others' beliefs, Christian or non-Christian. Also in 1649, Gov. Stone invited around 300 Puritans to come live in Maryland, as they were being persecuted in Virginia. He regretted the decision, for as soon as word reached Maryland that Parliament, under the leadership of Cromwell, had beheaded King Charles I, the Puritans decided they did not want to live under the governorship of a Catholic (Lord Baltimore had founded Maryland as a colony where Catholics could practice their faith openly) and rose in revolt...despite having been given sanctuary by this "Catholic" Governor when they were being persecuted in Virginia. The rebellion carried on for several years until a peace agreement was reached and the colony remained under the control of the Calvert family (Lord Baltimore's family).

And what about Samoset?

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

And what about Samoset?

There was a TV series about him. It was called 77 Samoset Strip