Among the first English settlers were the Pilgrims, a group of about 100 people who fled England in 1608 for Holland due to religious persecution (Henkin and McLennan , 54), but they found it to be too tolerable (Lesson), and were concerned about the influence of the Dutch on their children (Henkin and McLennan, 54). With hopes of a “purer” society (lesson, 9/21/16), they decided to emigrate to the New World, eventually landing at Plymouth Harbor. The Puritans emigrated due to concern that “the English Reformation had not completely purged itself of Catholic heresy” (Henkin and McLennan,