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Excerpt from Lane Families of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: Memorial Address at the Reunion of Descendants and Kindred of William Lane Boston, 1651, William Lane Hampton, 1685
The Pilgrims and the Puritans were persons of strong conviction and determined action. The force which impelled them was primarily a religious force which entered into all their interests and gave shape and form, tone and life to all their institutions. The Pilgrims believed that the national church of England in its fundamental organization and government as well as in its forms and practices was contrary tothe word of God, and for conscience sake they took their stand as Separatists and Independents. The Puritans did not object in principle to the organization and government of the national church and desired to continue in its fold, but they dissented from many of its rites and Observances to which, for conscience sake, they could not and would not conform. The Pil grims and Puritans alike aimed at greater purity of faith and of life, and they alike incurred the enmity and persecution of those with whom they differed. The hand of power was upon and against them. And hundreds of them felt impelled to leave the land of their nativity to find a refuge and free scope for life in the land across the sea.
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