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Distant Relativity

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The Puritans who settled New Haven did so in part to worship as they pleased. But they weren’t necessarily willing to offer that freedom to others—especially Quakers, whose pacifism and egalitarianism were deeply heretical, and whose tactics were needling and …

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Distant Relativity

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This day in 1638, New Haven’s Puritan settlers arrived. Get to know them a little with this 17th-century story from 2017.

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Criminal Records

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Numerous historians have asserted that, during its heady first decades starting in 1638, the colony of New Haven was the purest of all the Puritan theocracies established in the New World. …

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