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The first successful American colony in THE UNITED STATES was resolved in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia. Though the Virginian colonists got difficulty initially, by the past due 1620s the Chesapeake area was thriving, having become a haven for those seeking economic opportunity in the new world. Pressures in Britain were growing as King Charles I had been on the throne. Though Charles I himself was an Anglican, many suspected him of Catholic sympathies, a suspicion not alleviated by Charles I marriage to a French Catholic princess. Many Protestants got a growing desire to apply their trust and carry out their lives away from the mom country, and desired refuge in a vacation spot called New Britain. The land chosen by this group, who "could pay their own way across the Atlantic" in contrast to the poorer settlers of the Chesapeake region was "colder, less abundant, but much healthier" than Virginia. Alan Taylor recognizes this decision as you in "classic Puritan fashion", citing one settler's view: "If men desire to truly have a people degenerate speedily, and also to corrupt their thoughts and physiques too...let them seek a wealthy garden soil, that beings in much with little labor; but if they desire that Piety and Godliness should prosper...let them choose a Country such as [New Britain] which yields sufficiency with hard labor and industry." The Puritans who came up to America were, therefore, primed for effort, self-control and the unbiased life, unlike their British counterparts who "preferred Anglicanism and the traditional culture seen as a church ales, Weekend diversions, ceremonial services, inclusive churches, and deference to the monarch."
