Outside of Massachusetts, other colonies did not have a Puritan majority enforcing their views on society through laws, but the clergy and people held a basically Calvinistic outlook on life for several generations.

• 在麻州以外的殖民地并没有占多数的清教徒来透过法律推行他们的社会观念，但牧师和民众仍维持着基本的加尔文派生活见解达好几个世代。