What is the difference between pilgrims and puritans?

What is the difference between the Separatists/Pilgrims and the Puritans of colonial New England

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    Those Separatists who came to New England favored the congregational approach to church polity but rejected Browne's extremism. The Pilgrims at Plymouth were Separatists; the Puritans at Massachusetts Bay were not.

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Those Separatists who came to New England favored the congregational approach to church polity but rejected Browne's extremism. The Pilgrims at Plymouth were Separatists; the Puritans at Massachusetts Bay were not.

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