Early Virginia Religious Petitions

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Chronology of Religious Development in America:
1607-1835

1607-1635

1607

Virginia settled. Church of England planted in British North America.

1620

Plymouth settled by Pilgrims.

1629-30

Massachusetts Bay Colony founded. Congregationalism planted in British North America.

1634

Maryland founded. Roman Catholic Church planted in British North America.

Reproduced with permission from: James H. Hutson, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998).

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