Colonial Dispositions Of The New England Colonies

3. The New England colonies were founded by the puritans who came to escape religious persecution. The puritans didn’t have any separation between the church and state, they mainly had a theocracy with the pastor as the head of the colony. They also based all of their rules off of the bible, the people who were considered “criminals” were people who had completed sins. Laws were not imposed by the monarch but by common law. In the middle colonies, the Quaker women had more rights politically. There were governors in New York and the colonist could elect representatives to an assembly. The southern colonies created the first elected legislature in 1619, the House of Burgesses, only white men who owned property could be elected or vote. The Toleration