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Why Leave England ?

Samuel Chapin, like many of the men and women who settled New England, came because of persecution, refusing to compromise their passionately held religious convictions.[5] These English Protestants wished to reform and purify the Church of England of the continued Roman Catholicism practices within the Anglican Church.[10][11] On their part, the Anglican Church and English Crown considered them extremists[10] and insisted that the Puritans conform to their religious practices which were abhorred by the Puritans.[11] [12] Puritan ministers were removed from office and they along with parishioners received savage punishments.[11] For example, in 1630 a man was sentenced to life imprisonment, had his property confiscated, his nose slit, an ear cut off, and his forehead branded with the letters "S. S." meaning Sower of Sedition.[11] As a result of this religious persecution, beginning in 1630 as many as 20,000[10] Puritans emigrated to the new world from England to gain the liberty to worship God as they chose.[11]
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chapin-671

Deacon Samuel Chapin has a deep tree in Devonshire, England on wikitree.