From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:49:43 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote:

> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote:
>
>> The denominations
>> here were largely FLEEING your established state church.
>
> You're weighing the New England Puritans too heavily, as a lot of
> people do: for a variety of reasons their Plymouth-Thanksgiving
> version got "stretched" to be the colonial archetype. In fact, they
> were way outnumbered (and for a long time economically out-prospered
> as well) by those in Virginia and its neighbors -- nearly all good
> Anglicans.

In the total area of the colonies the Anglicans were STILL a minority, even
in their hey-day and they'be been long since eclipsed even in the south by
other denominations like the Baptists.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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