Word: puritanly
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...early 17th century, Puritans from Holland and England crossed to America, and when the first colonial confederation was formed for mutual safety in 1643 among Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Haven and Connecticut, Tower believes, a flag of four red stripes was adopted and flown from coastal trading vessels as shown in a 1647 view of New Amsterdam (opposite). From these Puritan beginnings, the red-and-white-striped flag gradually took on a national symbolism. It appeared in New York during the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, with nine red and white stripes-for New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New Jersey...
...French, who were paying the expenses of Jones's fleet. And, as if to punctuate history's confusion, a contemporary view of the battle between the Constitution and the Guerriére in 1812 shows everything flying-the Stars and Stripes, the Stars alone, and the old Puritan Stripes of Rebellion...
Murdock, who was also formerly an assistant dean of the College, is best known for his studies of colonial literature. He has written "Increase Mather, the Foremost American Puritan," "Literature and Theology in Colonial New England," and others. He has edited "Selections from Cotton Mather" and with F. O. Mathiessen, "The Notebooks of Henry James...
...largest industrial corporations, the University's eight Nobel prize winners, four senators, twenty-five congressmen, and three governors, to mention only the most prominent. It is then indeed difficult to believe in the 'red' reputation of a university which has been described as the the "last refuge of the Puritan...
...headquarters of the "New England Chronicle and Essex Gazette." This short-lived publication, according to a contemporary, emitted "streams of intelligence and those patriotic songs and tracts which so pre-eminently animated the defenders of American liberty." All the enthusiasm aroused by rebellion must have subverted the Puritan spirit of Stoughton, for the foundations soon began to crumble, and in 1780 the building was razed...