Whats the religious affliction in each of the 13 colonies?

Question

What was the religion in every colony.

Answer 1

As some have said, the religion was "Christian" for all, and the term is "religious affiliation". But, of course, you're interested in WHICH church was dominant in each.

Here's the basic picture:

1) New England was mainly settled by Puritans and their offshoots (esp. the Congregationalists, and some Baptists [CT & Rhode Island]) - Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island [Rhode Island, founded by Baptist Roger Williams, refused to establish a state church]

2) The official church of the southern colonies was the Church of England (Anglican Church) -- Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. [Maryland later became Anglican]

3)The Middle Colonies -- New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
The Quakers were the first settlers in Pennsylvania, but there was, in fact, much religious diversity in these colonies (and, except for Maryland which ended up Anglican, none of these colonies established an official state church)
"Dutch Mennonites, French Huguenots, German Baptists, and Portuguese Jews joined larger communions of Dutch Reformed, Lutherans, Quakers, and Anglican"
(article -"The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism")
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/midcol.htm
(Presbyterians and Quakers were the largest groups in New Jersey, the Dutch Reformed were important in early New York history)


For the OFFICIAL (established) religion of each colony, see the following chart. Note that several of the colonies (Rhode Island and the Middle Colonies) did not have an established church
http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/colchart.html

Answer 2

You mean "affiliation"?

All the 13 colonies were Christian.

Massachusettes even had a state religion into the 19th century (disproving the "Separation of Church and State" logic propagated by Christian-haters).

Answer 3

lol! I think you mean affiliation...well, most of the Northeastern ones were Puritan, except Rhode Island which was started by the Baptists, Pennsylvania by Quakers, Georgia by Catholics. Others you'll have to research yourself...

Answer 4

Your question is hysterical!! But I don't think you meant it that way. I do consider any religion an affliction, but I think you meant affiliation.