> CHRONOLOGY

1636
  • Rhode Island colony established.

  • Connecticut colony founded.

1636–1637
  • Pequot War fought between colonists and Pequot Indians.

1638
  • Anne Hutchinson excommunicated.

1642
  • Puritan Revolution inflames England.

1649
  • English Puritans win civil war.

1656
  • Quakers arrive in Massachusetts and are persecuted.

1662
  • Many Puritan congregations adopt Halfway Covenant.

1692
  • Salem witch trials held.