It's bad enough you holding their stolen land as your personal nature preserve (and retirement account, I expect), but slurring them as non-American is adding insult to injury.
The Puritans arrived in the colonies in the early 1600s about the same time of the Plymouth Rock landing. So I am not certain what you mean when you say that the Puritans came later.
The small Plymouth group arrived in 1620. The Puritans arrived and established Massachusetts Bay Colony ten years later in 1630. In the ten years between 1630 and 1640, about 26,000 Puritans landed in Massachusetts. After that immigration to America pretty much ended for decades.
Neither the Puritans or the Plymouth Brethren were pacifists.
More on the Puritans and their descendents: Descended from a small founding population (the 26,000 which immigrated in the 1730's) the Massachusetts Puritans were VERY prolific. The other New England colonies were all offshoots of Massachusetts. Greater New England, populated by the Puritan's descendents, was the major source of immigrants into upstate New York, northeern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And after the Erie canal was built, the population growth of the Puritan's descendents flowed into the upper midwest and Great Lakes states. Later generations of Puritan descendents provided most of the immigrants that crossed the plains to the Pacific Northwest, northern California, and Utah. About Utah, it's worth noting that the Mormon religion originated in upper New York among a population descended from New Englanders. Their movement west wasn't unique but was illustrative of what was happening in the population around them.
Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Boston - all cities established by Puritans and their descendents. |
