John Smith and John Winthrop
Life in New England in the early years of America was a chance for people to start over while including in this new way of life the philosophies they believed in. Leaders and prominent men like John Winthrop and John Smith saw America as a place to spread their ideas and make them into a functioning community. These men had different visions of what America was when they arrived there and of what it should become in time. Each of them wanted a type of change to occur in the New World. Winthrop was interested in forming a close community, serving God and avoiding selfishness. Smith saw America as a place to achieve wealth and become financially independent. Smith also emphasizes the importance of being hard working people in order to achieve this wealth. The Puritan John Winthrop came to America and saw a fresh start in which to form a community locked together by religion. On the political side, Puritans were a group of Protestants who were opposed to the corruption and abuses of the Church of England. The Puritans wanted to purify their church, to make it holy and pleasing to God. On the spiritual side, Puritans were men and women with a strong personal devotion to God. They believed that the chief goal of man was to:
Still on the subject of ships and people who may be interested in building them, Smith once again lists wood as a commodity. ...by whose arrival (the ships) may be made that provision of fish to...Of certain red berries called alkermes which is worth ten shillings a pound, but of these hath been sold for thirty or forty...Of beavers, black foxes, and furs of price, may yearly be had 6 or 7,000;(4-5) Smith tries to appeal to as many useful people as possible. He wants to make sure that the people Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. ((Exodus 19:5-6). Of woods seeing there is such plenty of all sorts, if those who build ships and boats, buy wood at so great a price, as it is in England...live well by their trade, when labor is all required to take those necessaries w without any other tax, what hazard will be here, but do much better?(6)
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Approximate Word count = 1844
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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