The correct answer is “Puritans”.
By the 1670s then stern religious rules of the original Puritans had less influecen over New England.
The Puritans were rigid beleivers of Puritanism in England that decided to move to the new continent in September 1620. That first migration of Puritans arrived to what now is New England. There they founded the Plymouth colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Time passed by, and by the 1670s then stern religious rules of the original Puritans had less influecen over New England.