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R:John Winthrop A:me F:journal T:who were the puritans, what did they do? Dear, diary Hello my name is John Winthrop. I am the leader of the Puritans and the governor of Massachusetts 1st one to. We went to America because we thought it wasn’t right that the king was in control of the church and the government. So we went to see the king and got some money to go to America. Massachusetts Bay to be exact. We arrived at Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Then we started a colony there. We called it Boston. We are very strict religious people. We even started public schools. We started public schools because we thought that kids should know how to read and write. In Europe you had to pay to go to school and people that were poor their kids couldn’t go to school. Then they didn’t know how to read or write.