Other Quakers faced persecution in Puritan Massachusetts. He was one of ten children in a Protestant family of Puritan descent. Johnson came from a family of New England Puritan ancestry. New England fulfilled the economic expectations of its Puritan founders. He strove to portray himself as an ascetic puritan. These sports were illegal in England during Puritan rule. The committees included scholars with Puritan sympathies, as well as High Churchmen. Provincetown, Massachusetts, bringing the Puritan pilgrims. Her theological views differed markedly from those of most of the colony's Puritan ministers. In 1634 the vicar was convicted of Puritan practices. The UCC is the successor of the city's Puritan religious traditions. Hobart married in America Rebecca Ibrook, daughter of his fellow Puritan Richard Ibrook. Colonial American art saw a large number of "memento mori" images due to Puritan influence. He was of Irish and English Puritan descent. The sermon was central to Puritan public worship.