Hester’s Time Period

• Challanges

- Most made a living by farming

-Mostly British settlers, some Dutch and some natives

- Created this colony to escape religious persecution

• Colonies

• How was it Run

- Disease

- More men than woman

• Puritan Belief

- By provincial, proprietary, and charter governments

- Governor was commissioned by the king

- Assemblies were elected by landowners and had to make laws similar to the ones in England

- People are saved by grace and merit

- Belief in witches

- Opposed to other religious views