To: NYer
I thought Maryland was the Catholic colony?
6 posted on
07/04/2014 3:03:20 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So did I. A son and I were just reading about Maryland in U.S. History. Apparently it started as a refuge for Catholics but didn’t stay that way.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It became that later. But not at first.
14 posted on
07/04/2014 3:27:33 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maryland was founded as a refuge for English Catholics. (Catholicism was illegal in Britain from the Reformation to the 19th century.) The Puritans eventually took over Maryland and made Catholicism illegal there.
16 posted on
07/04/2014 4:07:52 PM PDT by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I thought Maryland was the Catholic colony?Technically it was, but the majority of the first settlers were actually were CoE / High Church Anglican.
21 posted on
07/04/2014 8:04:10 PM PDT by
verga
(Conservative, leaning libertarian)
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