The correct answer to this open question is the following. As a result of their Puritan beliefs, the center of life for colonists in New England was religion through the local church. In the 16th century in England, Puritans started a Reformation movement that was not accepted by the Church of England. Puritans were persecuted and had to travel to North America to find a better place to practice their religious beliefs.
True, the Tejas blamed the Spaniards for an outbreak of deadly disease. The Spanish started to colonize there bring diseases over with them, and as Indians gave them land they gave new and unknown elements to the land like the pilgrims did.
