Mary Dyer was a women in Colonial times who Expressed Quaker beliefs in a Puritan Colony.
That means that she only worshiped God not the King.
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Thomas Hooker founded the colony of Connecticut.
Same reason as everyone else probably. The polish came to America for reasons like Some immigrants left to escape conscription, others left to seek better opportunities in America, and some fled from religious persecution.
About half of the passengers on the Mayflower were Separatists who had fled from England to Leiden, Holland to escape persecution. Source: http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Genealogy/LondonAndLeidenGroups.php
Ida B. Wells
they fled to the the north because the north did not have any slavery.