Meanings of puritan ancestry in English

I have a part Puritan ancestry, as any Lowrie will inform you.

Truly the moral instincts of the family were worthy of their Puritan ancestry.

Here men of Puritan ancestry find it well to curb a puritanical instinct.

Those peculiarities were the natural development of the seed sown by our sturdy Puritan ancestry.

Though a native of Rhode Island, and of Puritan ancestry, he was quite Western in appearance.

He possessed the sturdy qualities of his Puritan ancestry, united with the charming manners of an aristocrat.

It may be due to their Puritan ancestry, forbidding them to make pleasure the only business of life.

It's my Puritan ancestry, I suppose.

Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.

He seemed at this moment to hold himself in check with a rigid stubbornness that answered for his New England origin, and Puritan ancestry!

"With a Puritan ancestry, I suppose?"

"Nevertheless you are Venice, you are Italy, you are Pagan"-theyoung man iterated almost solemnly, as if a Puritan ancestry demanded this reproach.