puritan

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Born in Dublin in 1623, Downing spent his childhood in London before emigrating to New England with his family as part of the Puritan migration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“For nearly 250 years, Mary has played a distinct role in our great American story,” Trump declared, offering a brief Catholic history of the United States that would’ve made this country’s Puritan forefathers retch.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

It was branded as heretical by Puritan authorities.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025

But today she had had too sharp a lesson in the retribution of this Puritan Colony, for the first time she felt a twinge of real fear.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare