Puritans in Framingham

         A lot of what we talked about in class tied back to the puritans. They were here from England, as well as the pilgrims that came over. There are many differences between these two groups. Although they both were from the same place, they had very different principles and beliefes in life. The pilgrims came over to Massachusetts because they didn't want thier children to become corrupted by the English government. The puritans decided to come over because they wanted a utopian ideal of pure religion.
       It is very interesting how both the puritans and pilgrims settled in massachusetts. More then that, it's cool that the puritans were from framingham. Because of these puritans, framingham was the end point of the Salem witch trials. The acussed witches fled salem to framingham and the trail they followed was later called Salem end road.
      Speaking of Salem, every year during halloween the town has a huge treat-or-treat fest. I haven't gone yet, but I would really love to some day. I think it is pretty ironic how they make halloween such a big night because the purtians thought it was not right to be witches or "have powers". Not saying that the puritans were completly bad people, but it was pretty messed up what they did to people that they thought had magical powers. I think the witch trials were very unjust and all it ended up doing was killing people unconditionally.