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The recruiting drive was led by John Dick, a recruiting agent for settlers in the New World. The British government agreed to provide free passage to the colony, free land, and one year of rations upon arrival. Over 2,000 of the "Foreign Protestants" arrived between 1750 and 1752, in 12 ships: [1] [2] Alderney (1750) Nancy (1750) Ann (1750 ...
The Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act 1708 (7 Ann. c. 9), sometimes referred to as the Foreign and Protestants Naturalization Act 1708, [3] was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act was passed on 23 March 1709, which was still considered part of the year 1708 in the British calendar of the time. [4]
The Plantation Act 1740 (referring to colonies) or the Naturalization Act 1740 [1] are common names [2] [3] used for an act of the British Parliament (13 Geo. 2.c. 7) that was officially titled An Act for Naturalizing such foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America.
The British Board of Trade hired John Dick, a young Scotsman and recruiting agent, to recruit Foreign Protestants and promised them land, a year's subsistence, and arms and tools. Transportation was not free, although some settlers were able to finance their passage by contracting their labour to the government. [2]
Protestants account for nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide and more than one tenth of the total human population. [2] Various estimates put the percentage of Protestants in relation to the total number of the world's Christians at 33%, [5] 36%, [13] 36.7%, [2] and 40%, [3] while in relation to the world's population at 11.6% [2] and ...
According to Mark Juergensmeyer of the University of California, "popular Protestantism" (that is to say all forms of Protestantism with the notable exception of the historical denominations deriving from the Protestant Reformation) is the most dynamic religious movement in the contemporary world, alongside resurgent Islam. [30]
There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]
Strangers' church was a term used by English-speaking people for independent Protestant churches established in foreign lands or by foreigners in England during the Reformation. (The spelling stranger church is also found in texts of the period and modern scholarly works.)