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More than a week after the vessel first set out, the winds were finally favorable. The ship weighed anchor and sailed for New England. Governor John Winthrop and approximately 300 English Puritans were on board. They were leaving their homes in England to settle in a fledgling colony â Massachusetts Bay â on the other side of the Atlantic.
He is considered one of the fathers of literary criticism in America. John Cotton and John Winthrop were among the first American Puritans who emigrated from England to the New World. Puritan writers also included Thomas Adams, Richard Baxter, James Durham, Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Shepard and Thomas Goodwin.