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In the American colonies the First Great Awakening was a wave of religious enthusiasm among Protestants that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Christianity. It resulted from preaching that deeply affected listeners (already church members) with a sense of personal guilt and salvation by ...
Sericulture farm in Kansas that was founded on Fourierist principles. Later shifted away from Fourierism before its collapse. Zion Valley: Kansas William Bickerton: 1875 1879 Bickertonite Mormon religious colony that secularized in 1879 to become the town of St. John, Kansas. [9] Danish Socialist Colony [10] Kansas Louis Pio: 1877 1877
The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America. Malden, Ma; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-6936-3. (43 essays by scholars) Hall, D. D. (2019). The Puritans: A transatlantic history. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Koester, Nancy (2007). Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States. Minneapolis ...
The colony was further augmented by Presbyterian Scotch-Irish in 1683, but the most important addition was the coming of the French Huguenots upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, who settled on the Cooper River, and were later admitted to the political rights of the colony. In 1697 religious liberty was accorded to all "except Papists".
Eisenstadt, Peter, ed. Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse UP, 2005) pp. 1048–1053.. Fabend, Firth Haring. 2012. New Netherland in a nutshell: a concise history of the Dutch colony in North America. Albany, NY: New Netherland Institute; 139pp; Goodwin, Maud (1921). Dutch and English on the Hudson : a chronicle of colonial New York. Yale ...
New York City attracted a large polyglot population, including a large black slave population. [60] New Jersey began as a division of New York, and was divided into the proprietary colonies of East and West Jersey for a time. [61] Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn.
This site has been continuously occupied since the community's establishment in 1848, and the existing Mansion House has been inhabited since 1862. Today, the Oneida Community Mansion House is a non-profit educational organization chartered by the State of New York. It welcomes visitors throughout the year with guided tours, programs, and exhibits.
Penn guaranteed the settlers of his colony freedom of religion. He advertised the policy across Europe so that Quakers and other religious dissidents would know that they could live there safely. On November 10, 1681, Robert Wade established the first Monthly Meeting in the colony at his home, which eventually became the Chester Monthly Meeting.