Comments on: Connecticut was a Protestant, Catholic, Christian or cologne?

By: servant of God Almighty

servant of God Almighty — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:16:10 +0000

Connecticut was settled by Dutch fur traders in 1614.
In the 1640's, Puritans from other colonies began to move in New Amsterdam (Connecticut) because of religious intolerance to get elsewhere.
Roger Williams emphasized the radical separation of church and state. Was forced to leave Boston and was later expelled from Salem for the General Court of Massachusetts (1636). Later founded the colony of Rhode Island that became a refuge for religious dissenters. Williams was a devout Baptist and Calvinist. His friend Thomas Hooker was the founder of Connecticut. " He was a former minister of England and a graduate of Cambridge, and like his fellow Puritans, a Calvinist.
John Davenport - Founder, "New Haven" cologne. According Monsma, was "a Calvinist as radical as could be found in the soil of New England" (What has America done for Calvinism, 115).

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:16:10 +0000

The Northeast was settled by a majority of Protestant Christians, Connecticut to a Christian colony.
For the sake of argument, even if the area was settled by Catholics, Connecticut would remain a Catholic Christian in Cologne (and Protestants) are Christians.

By: Daver

Daver — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:16:10 +0000

Protestants and Catholics are Christians and a Christian has to be a Catholic or Protestant. So the question should be simply "They were Protestant or Catholic."
But to answer your question I think they were Protestants.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:16:10 +0000

Catholics and Protestants are Christians. But to get to your question, the New England area, being part of Connecticut, was settled by Puritans - a kind of Protestant Christians.

By: Marie Thérèse

Marie Thérèse — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:16:10 +0000

was a Protestant … mainly Calvinists, Methodists, and congregationists.