Serious numbers of migrants arrived in Massachusetts from 1630 - 1640. Roughly 21,000. By 1700 they had become 91,000. Their immediate priorities: having families, building farms, forming towns, and building institutions Old England never developed on local levels. But the new Americans didn’t just reproduce the country they left. They built institutions England didn’t yet have.

Year 1 — a seagoing vessel launched at Medford, 4 July 1631. The shipwrights had been sent out in 1629, ahead of the fleet.
Year 4 — representative government. Elected deputies sitting in the General Court.
Year 6 — Harvard. £400 voted for “a schoale or colledge.”
Year 8 — a printing press, the only one in British North America. Glover died on the voyage out; his widow Elizabeth moved the operation to Cambridge and got it running.
Year 10 — the Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in America.
Year 11 — the Body of Liberties, read aloud at every General Court.
Year 12 — the 1642 law: every parent and master must teach every child to read.
Year 17 — a blast furnace at Saugus and the Old Deluder Satan Act. Fifty households, a schoolmaster; a hundred, a grammar school; £5 a year if you don’t.
Year 22 — their own silver coinage, struck without telling London.

What was the main thing leading the Christian culture forward and higher? Christian households. Fertility, catechism, and land. Conscientious self-government became optimistic family government became the first jurisdiction of America's foundations of freedom.