In order to ensure the success of their mission, the Puritans employed a rigid system of discipline that relied heavily on its citizens' reporting on the individual transgressions of one another.
Challenges of the new society. As Puritans began settling in the Boston colony in the 1630s, they faced a multitude of challenges, one of the greatest being the difficulty of taming the terrain in which they now lived. Surrounded by marshlands, the area was not easily arable; consequently, families were allotted very small parcels of land on which to grow crops. Another problem was a severe lack of wood, which made the biting cold of winter a life-threatening danger; the early history of the Boston colony is fraught with stories of Puritans freezing to death and losing fingers and toes to the frost of harsh winters. In addition, the settlers found little feed for their cattle, which also jeopardized their food supply. These problems diminished as settlers expanded inland to areas where wood and grazing land were more abundant.
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