![]() Catholics, Quakers and other non-Puritans were banned from the colony. However, the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony didn’t tolerate any opposing religious views. The Puritans and Pilgrims arrived in New England in the early 1600s after suffering religious persecution in England. The Spanish commander wrote the king that he had hanged the settlers for “scattering the odious Lutheran doctrine in these Provinces.” The Spanish, who were largely Catholic and occupied much of Florida at the time, slaughtered the Huguenots at Fort Caroline. More than half a century before the Pilgrims set sail in the Mayflower, French Protestants (called Huguenots) established a colony at Fort Caroline near modern-day Jacksonville, Florida.
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