<P> The Eleutheran Adventurers were a group of English Puritans and religious Independents who left Bermuda to settle on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas in the late 1640s . The small group of Puritan settlers , led by a man named William Sayle , had been expelled from Bermuda for their failure to swear allegiance to the Crown , and were searching for a place in which they could freely practice their faith . This group represented the first concerted European effort to colonize the Bahamas . </P>
<P> The Eleutheran Adventurers were a group of English Puritans and religious Independents who left Bermuda to settle on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas in the late 1640s . The small group of Puritan settlers , led by a man named William Sayle , had been expelled from Bermuda for their failure to swear allegiance to the Crown , and were searching for a place in which they could freely practice their faith . This group represented the first concerted European effort to colonize the Bahamas . </P>
who was the leader of the eleutheran adventurers
who was the leader of the eleutheran adventurers
William Sayle
William Sayle