The hope for religious freedom is what lured the original English settlers to the New World. The original settlers sought a utopian society, "a New Jerusalem, on the barren coast of New England" (McMichael 4). John Wintrop (1588-1649) explicitly reflects these sentiments and culture of the early settlers (Puritans) in The Journal of John Wintrop. However, William Byrd II (1674-1744) in The Secret Diary Of William Byrd Of Westover, expresses the rapid change in the American sentiment and culture a few generations after the original settlers. The latter generation swayed from the religious an
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