ew that one-day when they started a family of their own they would receive a portion of their parents lot. The children earned this land through all of their hard work during childhood. This is what the leaders of the puritan community did not recognize. When the first generation began to die off more land was being passed down to the younger generations. This land was already well prepared and had hoses and other buildings built on it. The elders in the church community began to notice this and thought that receiving all this newfound wealth from their fathers was spoiling the young generation.The Puritan leaders were worried that the new generation was becoming too focused on the possessions that they had just received from their parents that were quickly passing away. The Puritan leaders saw this as a major threat to the church because their way of life was not supposed to be focused around worldly possessions. The younger generation was able to attain more material goods without trying any harder than their parents were. The life in New England was becoming easier. Life was becoming easier because this younger generation had already put in many years of hard work preparing their land and houses. Their work was done early in their childhood, different from their parents that did the majority of their work in the new land in the middle of their adult years. This is what the Puritans did not take into consideration when they were concerned about how they were living their lives. The Puritan leaders were just concerned about the church community staying intact throughout the next generation. They didnt realize that the life in New England was just making a shift. There were now many more people there and the population was spread out over a large area. If they could have looked into the average family they would have noticed that life was based around their religion. The easiest way to tell how the families felt about th...
