southern colonies?

Question

i searched all over the internet and i found some things but not enough.

i would like links about religion and laws in the southern colonies.


thanks!

Answer 1

See these short little articles about religion and the Aristocracy of the South.

http://colonial-america.suite101.com/article.cfm/apprehensive_aristocrats

and

http://colonial-america.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_revolutionary_mindset

Answer 2

See additional info below. The 4 southern colonies were founded as Church of England colonies. At the time of the American Revolution Methodism was still a Movement within the Church of England.

All the early English were C of E. Then Scots and Scotch Irish brought Presbyterianism. French Huguenots were also Calvinist and they usually became Presbyterian. There were some people from some of the German states that brought religion similar to Baptist.

Probably the change in the religious landscape of the South was due to ruralness. In most small communities and town there was only one or two churches to select. Established churches that required seminary training had a hard time providing clergy for all the rural communities. The Methodist had their horseback circuit rider preachers and the Baptist frequently were farmers during the week and a preacher on Sunday. These latter 2 just were more vigorous at bring souls into their faith.

Today, there are many descendants of snake oil salesmen peddling coats of arms like they belong to a surname. They were granted to individuals and are passed on to legitimate direct male line descendants. Now, in recent years, there have been people who have money that have had one designed and applied to the College of Arms in London and had one granted to them. If the people of Boston's Back Bay have them that is how they got them.

Many people can make legitimate claim to several in their family trees, but that doesn't mean they themselves are entitled to any one of them. It just means if after doing research, they find they have several direct ancestors that were granted one, and if they have a book printed and even published, it is quite legitimate for them to include a picture of their ancestors' coats of arms.

If a person has any English ancestors in the early colonial days of the American South, they have a good chance of finding more than one in their family tree. There are some in the South that have the ones their ancestors brought from England 400 years ago. They aren't one of those dinky little walnut plaques that some silly people have on their den walls or over their fireplaces. Southerner usually don't display them. They aren't any good for buying groceries. Walmart won't even take them.

The difference between the English of the Colonial South and the English of Colonial North, is probably why the Southerner was the slave owner but the Yankee along with the Dutch Knickerbockers, like Roosevelts, were the slave traders.