g'day Mikey23, Thank you for your question. According to Wikipedia, "The religious disputes that prompted settlement in America were also topics of early writing. A journal written by John Winthrop discussed the religious foundations of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Edward Winslow also recorded a diary of the first years after the Mayflower's arrival. Other religiously influenced writers included Increase Mather and William Bradford, author of the journal published as a History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–47. Others like Roger Williams and Nathaniel Ward more fiercely argued state and church separation." I don't know if he was the first but Nathaniel Hawthorne was the most notable early writer to address the Puritans in the Scarlet Letter. I have attached sources for your reference. Regards Reference Wikipedia American Literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature Wikipedia Nathaniel Hawthorn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne Early American Literature http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlitcol.htm American Puritanism an Introduction http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/1intro.html Eldritch Press Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html

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