| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1630 | | Massachusetts Bay Colony | Although other colonies preceded it, the Bay Colony soon dominated the region because of effective organization and massive migration. | colony, settlement, Puritans |
| 1634 | | John Endecott defaces King's colors | Radical Puritan John Endecott of Salem believed that the image of the cross was idolatrous. A website for the Popham Colony has a representation of such a flag. | Endicott, Endecott, flag, Hawthorne, Puritans |
| 1636 | | Thomas Hooker leads settlement at Hartford. | | colony, settlement, Puritans |
| 1637 | | Anne Hutchinson banished, settles Portsmouth, RI | Among her supporters was Mary Dyer, a future religious martyr. | Rhode Island, Puritans, Hutchinson, Antinomian |
| 1638 | | New Haven founded | | colony, settlement, Connecticut, Puritan |
| 1695 | | Thomas Maule denounces Puritan leaders | | Quakers |
| 1702 | | Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana" | This immense history of New England includes biographical vignettes of early ministers and governors, but also stories of captivites and accounts of diabolical possession. | history, Puritans |
| 1820 | | Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" reprinted | | witch, Puritanism |
| 1824 | | Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times" | A distraught Puritan woman marries an Indian. | Indians |
| 1825 | | John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted | | Antinomianism, Puritanism, Hutchinson, Dyer |
| 1827 | | Catharine Sedgwick, "Hope Leslie, or Early Times in Massachusetts" | Features a friendship between a Puritan woman and a Pequot woman. | Indian |
