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Jun 24, 2024 · Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Danforth, the colony's last leaders under the old charter, resumed their posts as governor and deputy governor, but lacked constitutional authority to rule because the old charter had been vacated.
In 1629 the church became the focus of plans to settle a colony in the New World. Leading Boston laymen Thomas Dudley, Simon Bradstreet, and William Coddington became active in the plans.
Jun 20, 2024 · At the age of sixteen she married Simon Bradstreet. Both Anne's father and husband were later to serve as governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anne and Simon, along with Anne's parents, emigrated to America aboard the Arbella as part of the Winthrop Fleet of Puritan emigrants in 1630.
Jun 20, 2024 · Anne Bradstreet Presents biographical information on 17th-century Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet. Role in the Massachusetts Bay Company; Efforts to escape religious persecution under Britain's King Charles I; Journey to the New World; Marriage to Simon Bradstreet.
5 days ago · Marriage was not an indissoluble sacrament as it was in England, but a legal contract breakable by divorce -- a Dutch idea that William Bradstreet described as 'the laudable custom of the low countries,' where so many Puritans had taken refuge.
Jun 14, 2024 · [Simon] Bradstreet, in his warrant for their arrest, alleges their offense “making a horrible disturbance on the Lord’s Day, and affrighting the people in the South Church in Boston, in the time of the public dispensing of the word, whereby several women, as I am informed, are in great danger of miscarrying.”
Jun 28, 2024 · Petition of John Scott, John Winthrop, Simon Bradstreet, Daniel Denison, Josiah Winslow, Thos. Willet, and Richard Lord to the King.
