[Pharmboy]

Yes...thank you for your clarifying comments. I would have thought that the bulk of the Bunker Hill patriots were Congregationalists, Unitarians (both of these being the heirs to Puritanism), Anglicans and Presbyterians. Interesting that you make the bulk of them Prsbyterians.

[x]

Presbyterian with a small p. Congregationalists and Presbyterians more or less agreed about theology. They came from different areas and disagreed a bit over how the church was to be organized beyond the local level.

The Congregationalists were English or New Englanders, and the Presbyterians were Scots or Irish or Scots-Irish. The fighters at Bunker Hill were largely Congregationalists (Unitarians gradually emerging from the established Congregational Church).

As the country moved westward the New England Congregationalist and Ulster Presbyterian streams could grow together, so that New Englanders like the Beechers might become Presbyterians in the West.

The Scots Highlanders of North Carolina, though, were largely Presbyterian, but Tory, having already lost much to the English (and their Lowland Scots allies) and not wanting to lose again.

[colorado tanker]

In the language of the day, the English regarded all Calvinists as presbyterians. The only difference that later appeared between Congregationalists and Presbyterians was in church governance.

In some colonies, for instance New York, you could predict fairly well whether someone was a patriot or tory by their religion, the tories being almost all Episcopalian. Obviously, that did not hold true as one went down into the Southern colonies.