the niy or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after

1629,There were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.There

men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.We

should not forget , however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.While

few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary positions to be analyzed, The in thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality.A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late

1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.sexual

confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “e out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders

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