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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 ]
After the rebellion a number of the French and German-speaking Foreign Protestants left the village to join Le Loutre and the Acadians. [8] The rebellion and fallout of the rebellion was considered by the British to be yet another mark against the Acadians, who continued to seek neutrality while farming lands the British intended to settle new ...
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.
There were approximately 2,900 churches in the Thirteen Colonies by the time of the Revolutionary War, of which 82 to 84 percent were affiliated with non-Anglican Protestant denominations, with 76 to 77 percent specifically affiliated with British Dissenter denominations (Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist, or Quaker) or continental ...
ISBN 1-108-01126-8. OCLC 6812695. MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Thomas Cranmer (London, 1996) MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (London, 1999) Pettegree, Andrew (1986). Foreign Protestant communities in sixteenth-century London. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822938-0. OCLC 13525196.
Turco-Calvinism refers to the alliance or rapprochement between the followers of the Protestant Reformation and the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This rapprochement occurred at the expense of the Catholic Habsburgs , as the Protestant Christians were struggling for survival in Europe and later entered into frontal conflict ...
Reliable data on religious demography is difficult to obtain because an official nationwide census has not been conducted in decades. U.S. government estimates indicate a population of approximately 30.4 million, with Sunni Muslims comprising 80% of the population, Shia Muslims making up about 19%, and other religious groups comprising less than 1%.