Unlike Europe, where the royal court, aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups.

Churches also often played a role, especially the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), Congregationalists, Wesleyans, and Reformed Presbyterians as well as certain sects of mainstream denominations such as branches of the Methodist church and American Baptists.

Settlers to these colonies included Anglicans, Dutch Calvinists, English Puritans, English Catholics, Scottish Presbyterians, French Huguenots, German and Swedish Lutherans, as well as Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, Moravians and Jews of various nationalities.

In 1692, the Maryland Assembly established the Church of England as the " established church " of the province, which put pressure on the Quakers and Presbyterians, whose numbers in the county began a slow decline until the American Revolution.

Originally settled almost entirely by immigrants of British and Irish stock, Worcester County was divided during the colonial period into several parishes, though Quakers, Presbyterians, and later Methodists also set up meeting houses.

These first settlers included German Reformed and Lutherans in the east, British Quakers in the south and west, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in the center of today's Guilford County.

Irish Presbyterians and other minorities like the Quakers and Jews were in the same situation.

Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers ( founded in 1648 ), were considered Nonconformists at the time of the 1662 Act of Uniformity.

" The invidious distinction it drew between Presbyterians on the one hand, and Catholics, members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), other nonconformists, unbelievers, and Jews on the other, who were compelled to support a ministry they conscientiously disapproved, offended his conscience.

During the civil war there were groups of Quakers, Baptists and Presbyterians.

At one time, most of the colleges were the Southern California affiliates of various Christian sects such as the Quakers and the Presbyterians.

Jack ( named for John Calvin, but whom Swift also connects to " Jack of Leyden ") represents the various Dissenting Protestant churches such as Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Congregationalists, or Anabaptists.

Among them are Presbyterians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Quakers, Roman Catholics and people of no denominational allegiance.

The Presbyterians supported the Church, and of the dissenters only the Quakers gave thanks to the King for the Indulgence.

Non-conformists such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Quakers, also had a subservient status in Parliament ; after 1707 they could hold seats, but not hold public office.

While Locke had advocated coexistance between the Church of England ( the official state church ) and dissenting Protestant denominations ( including Congregationalists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and Quakers ) he had excluded Roman Catholics from toleration-the same policy that the Act of Toleration enacted.

Described by Murray Rothbard as " echnically a part of the Virginia colony but in practice virtually independent ," Albemarle was a haven for political and religious refugees, such as Quakers and dissident Presbyterians.

The Parliamentary success in the war brought by 1645 a new relationship into being between the Presbyterians and other Protestant groups, classified as Independents, such as the emerging Quakers and Congregationalists.

He specifically talks about Quakers ( 1 – 4 ), Anglicans ( 5 ), Presbyterians ( 6 ), and Socinians ( 7 ).

Anglicanism was the religion sanctioned by colonial law, but Presbyterians, Quakers, and members of the Dutch Reformed church were in the majority.

The Methodists and Presbyterians in particular stressed personal salvation through direct individual faith in Jesus Christ's sacrificial death and resurrection on the behalf of sinners, as taught in the New Testament Gospels and the writings of the Apostles Peter, James and Paul.

Mariposans follow diverse Christian denominations according to their ethnic origins, but the Anglicans are clearly most dominant, followed in no particular order by Presbyterians, Salvationists, Methodists and Roman Catholics.

Royall, who had long made Presbyterians a particular object of scorn in her writing, objected to their using the building as a blurring of the lines between church and state.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

Such was his frustration during this period of rejection that he also applied to the Methodists, Independents and Presbyterians, and applications were even mailed directly to the Bishops of Chester and Lincoln and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.

Presbyterians also helped to shape voluntary societies that encouraged educational, missionary, evangelical, and reforming work.

Among the Paleo-orthodoxy and emerging church Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).

Other organizations of Presbyterians, such as the Confessing Movement and the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, have also organized on the other side of the issue to support maintaining the current standards of ordination.

He hoped to rally not merely the old faithful Royalists, but also the overwhelming numerical strength of the English Presbyterians to his standard.

The county also contains substantial numbers of Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Pentecostals, and Church of the Brethren.

In 1753, Scots-Irish Presbyterians and German Lutherans, who originally settled in Pennsylvania, began arriving in Statesville to plant crops in the fertile soil where game and water were also plentiful.

There is also a large presence of Presbyterians in the borough.

In 1889, the northern Presbyterians opened Glen Rose Collegiate Institute ( also known as Glen Rose College ), which remained in operation for the next 15 to 20 years.

During the course of 16th and 17th centuries, most of the land in Ireland was confiscated from Irish Catholic landowners during the Plantations of Ireland and granted to English settlers who were members of the established churches ( the Church of England and the Church of Ireland at the time ); in Ulster, many of the landowners were Presbyterians, also known as English Dissenters.

This was in part also an ethnic division, the Catholics and Presbyterians being descended from native Irish, Normans, ' Old English ', and Scottish settlers, and the " Protestants " ( Church of Ireland ) more often from English settlers like Tone's family.

Cumberland Presbyterians were also early to ordain African-Americans to the ministry.

Among the Paleo-Orthodoxy and Emerging Church movements in Protestant and evangelical churches, which includes many Methodists and Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).

Though the main purpose of the Priests Rape Boys website is to criticize Catholicism, the WBC also criticizes several mainline Protestant churches on the website, including Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Baptists.

Hezekiah Woodward, linked at the time in the minds of Presbyterians and officialdom with Milton as a dangerous writer, was also significant as an educational follower of Comenius and Bacon, and friend of Hartlib.

He also helped lead the Methodists into a merger with Presbyterians to form the United Church of Canada.

Both the Roman Catholic Church, which was emerging from a period of suppression, and the Presbyterians, who had also suffered under the penal laws, had sought state support for schools of their own tradition.