The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a time. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period. They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion.
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| Harriett 'Amanda' Fry |
Our second great grandfather
* (see relationship notes below), Price London Fuller (1848-1924), was a sixth-generation Mayflower descendant of
Edward Fuller. (blog post
here). He married Harriett (known as) '
Amanda' Fry (1854-1939) on January 7, 1876, in Indiana. She was the fourth generation of German immigrants with the Evangelical Reformed Church. They thought the Puritans were still too '
Church of Englandish.' This post is about her ancestors.
