A 390 Year Tradition

Now let's get it right:  

The Pilgrims were not Puritans

The `Pilgrims' (our name for them, not theirs) were not Puritans regardless of how many dimwits think they were, author text books with the same disgusting lie, or post articles in print or online repeating the same nonsense.

It's a lie and the Puritans were nothing less than horrid. Defending them or boasting of one's lineage to them is akin to the same as it regards members of Germany's 3rd Reich SS Nazis.

There is no defense for the Puritans.

The Mayflower Separatists neither robbed nor disabused the native Americans (Henceforth here referred to as "Pilgrims" and "Indians" due only to the commonality of the terms as it applies to them.)  they encountered and who were kind enough to befriend the small colony. Quite the contrary in fact as the two groups found themselves in a symbiotic relationship in no time at all. The Indians being familiar with local food sources and the Pilgrims access to then modern hunting gear such as early firearms.

A decade after the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims the horrid Puritans began arriving setting up their own adjacent Massachusetts Bay Colony (and running roughshod over Plymouth Colony at every opportunity) 
It was a scant 7 years before Thomas Hooker led a group to what became Hartford and later Connecticut so as to escape the reach of the dastardly theocracy the Puritans were creating.

 From: Pilgrims, Not Puritans

Arrived 1620	Arrived 1630
Governors Carver and Bradford	Governor Winthrop
Plymouth Colony	Massachusetts Bay Colony
Friendly with Indians for 40 years	Indian problems from the outset
Paid Indians for land	Seized Indian lands
Communal living first seven years	Individual profit from the outset
Democratic, consensus of the governed	Authoritarian
Separated from the Church of England	"Purified" the Church from within
Not a single prosecution of witchcraft	Prosecuted and executed for witchcraft
Representation and equal inheritance	Nothing to compare
Forerunner of US Constitution & Declaration of Independence	Nothing to compare
More tolerant than the Church of England	Intolerant