<P> For the next ten years , there was a steady exodus of Puritans from England , with about 20,000 people emigrating to Massachusetts and the neighboring colonies during the Great Migration . Many ministers reacted to the repressive religious policies of England , making the trip with their congregations , among whom were John Cotton , Roger Williams , Thomas Hooker , and others . Religious divisions and the need for additional land prompted a number of new settlements that resulted in Connecticut Colony ( by Hooker ) and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( by Williams and others ) . Minister John Wheelwright was banished in the wake of the Antinomian Controversy ( like Anne Hutchinson ) , and he moved north to found Exeter , New Hampshire . </P>
<P> For the next ten years , there was a steady exodus of Puritans from England , with about 20,000 people emigrating to Massachusetts and the neighboring colonies during the Great Migration . Many ministers reacted to the repressive religious policies of England , making the trip with their congregations , among whom were John Cotton , Roger Williams , Thomas Hooker , and others . Religious divisions and the need for additional land prompted a number of new settlements that resulted in Connecticut Colony ( by Hooker ) and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( by Williams and others ) . Minister John Wheelwright was banished in the wake of the Antinomian Controversy ( like Anne Hutchinson ) , and he moved north to found Exeter , New Hampshire . </P>
who was banished from the massachusetts bay colony
who was banished from the massachusetts bay colony
Minister John Wheelwright
Minister John Wheelwright